(There's still a POSIX-ism in the generator, in that it tries to write to "/dev/null". On Windows systems, I bet this will often work, but create a real file with that name. It would be better, and avoid portability problems, to guard the calls to fwrite, etc., with "if (file)" rather than spew to "/dev/null", but that's for another day.)
Both Cygwin and DJGPP know about /dev/null just fine. I don't know about MinGW though.
It doesn't. MinGW is just MSVCRT.
But it's a lot faster if you don't do the write at all ;-)
Yes; that's why I said "better" in addition to "avoid portability problems". :-)
I kinda think any program opening /dev/null itself is slightly confused; /dev/null is a convenience for users to use with programs that insist on writing to a file, not for programs that might or might not themselves want to write to things. Of course, this particular program is not performance-critical, so it's not like anyone has, or should have, tried hard to make it go maximally fast. :-)
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