[Mxflib-developers] Proposed change to FileGetc

[Matt B. <ma...@be...>]

Developers,

I am planning a not-exactly-backwards-compatible change to the FileGetc() 
function.

Currently it is as follows:

   Uint8 FileGetc(FileHandle file) { Uint8 c; FileRead(file, &c, 1); return 
c; }

Returning the unsigned byte read, or random gack on EOF or another error.

I propose changing it to:

   int FileGetc(FileHandle file) { Uint8 c; return (FileRead(file, &c, 1) 
== 1) ? (int)c : EOF; }

Which will return the unsigned byte read as the bottom 8-bits of a signed 
(platform optimized) integer, or EOF if there is an error (including 
end-of-file).

I will also add this to the developers forum on SourceForge, please reply 
there rather than this list.

Matt