This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface

       If  the  integer  value  returned  by  getchar() is stored into a variable of type char and then compared
       against the integer constant EOF, the comparison may never succeed, because sign-extension of a  variable
       of type char on widening to integer is implementation-defined.

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard
       for  Information  Technology  --  Portable  Operating  System  Interface  (POSIX),  The  Open  Group Base
       Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical  and  Electronics
       Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original
       IEEE  and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document.
       The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

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       The  functionality  described  on  this  reference  page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict
       between the requirements described  here  and  the  ISO C  standard  is  unintentional.  This  volume  of
       POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard.

       The getchar() function shall be equivalent to getc(stdin).

       Refer to fgetc().

       Thefollowingsectionsareinformative.

       None.

       None.

       getchar — get a byte from a stdin stream

       This  manual  page  is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux implementation of this interface
       may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the  interface
       may not be implemented on Linux.

       None.

       Refer to fgetc().

Section2.5, StandardI/OStreams, getc()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <stdio.h>

       #include <stdio.h>

       int getchar(void);