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Date:      Mon, 5 May 2008 15:21:56 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include stdio.h src/lib/libc/stdio clrerr.c feof.c ferror.c fileno.c getc.c getchar.c local.h putc.c putchar.c xprintf.c
Message-ID:  <200805051521.56926.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0805051501440.6406@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <200805051603.m45G3rrN089219@repoman.freebsd.org> <200805051459.29200.jhb@freebsd.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0805051501440.6406@sea.ntplx.net>

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On Monday 05 May 2008 03:02:45 pm Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 05 May 2008 02:40:03 pm Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >> I'm _not_ objecting, just interested in why.
> >>
> >> Any references to discussions on this?  Are we now safe for
> >> future compat or something?
> >
> > Having FILE be opaque broke just about every 'configure' script on the
> > planet. :(
> 
> Can you just expose the public parts of it and leave the
> rest as opaque placeholders or something, then map to a
> real FILE in libc?

Possibly, though we'd have to expose most of it so it is debatable if that 
would actually be worth the effort.

-- 
John Baldwin



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