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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Change to stdio.h to export `cookie?'
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 18:12:54 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <1932.822093339@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 19, 96 03:15:39 pm
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> > Personally, I'd use:
> > 
> > 	struct myfile {
> > 		FILE	*fp;
> > 		caddr_t	*userdata;
> > 	}
> > 
> > And wrapper all FILE * manipulation functions instead.
> 
> That implies that you can easily change all the references to it.  In
> this particular case, I don't feel like munging the insides of TCL,
> nor would I wish to maintain said hacks even if it were relatively
> easy.. :-)

I thought you knew; FILE * is an opaque type; there are *no*
references to it outside of stdio.

8-)  8-) 8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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