The feof routine (implemented both as a function and as a macro) determines whether the end of stream has been passed. When the end of file is passed, read operations return an end-of-file indicator until the stream is closed or until rewind, fsetpos, fseek, or clearerr is called against it.
For example, if a file contains 10 bytes and you read 10 bytes from the file, feof will return 0 because, even though the file pointer is at the end of the file, you have not attempted to read beyond the end. Only after you try to read an 11th byte will feof return a nonzero value.