From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 11 18:44:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566B437B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:44:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1C2i9U44061; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:44:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200102120244.f1C2i9U44061@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Daniel Eischen Cc: Matt Dillon , Tor.Egge@fast.no, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: installworld gotchas In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:44:09 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Matt Dillon wrote: > > > > > > : > > > : This is a major change to libc. The library maj must be bumped if yo u > > > : intend to change the sizeof(FILE), or every single third party applic atio > > n > > > : that uses stdio will break. > > > : > > > : -Matt > > > > > > Oh wait, is libc already bumped in current verses 4.2? If so then I gues > > s > > > we don't bump libc's maj. God help anyone using current though! > > > > > > -Matt > > > > > > I cant help but wonder why on earth we didn't have it like this from the > > start: > [...] > > That compiles fine. The __stdin thing is in case somebody likes the idea > > of #undef stdin or #ifdef stdin for some reason. > > > > In fact, I can't imagine *any* reason not to do this. At least this would > > insulate us from future nasties in FILE size changes, and would have > > saved us in this case. > > I like it, commit it :-) Well, now that we've broken the ABI, now is as good a time as any... Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message