Per Bothner scripsit:

> It warns at compile-time, and fails at run-time.
> (It probably shouldn't do the latter...)

Definitely it should not.

> So I looked at the offending code.  The attached solution is shorter,
> seems cleaner, and is likely to be more efficient.

I've prepared a patch that solves the problems with this code around
eof-objects, but yours is better and I will adopt it.  Thanks.

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