> From: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:06:31 -0500
>
> (1) Is it necessary to directly access members of the FILE structure?
> I'm not at all familiar with the ANSI specs; is this going to be
> all that portable?
It's not. Richard has been working for about 2 years to make it more
portable, but MH (his starting point) was so non-portable, that after 2 years,
there's still a lot of things like this in the code.
> (2) Should LINUX_STDIO be autodetected by configure? A simple check
> would be something like:
>
> if uname -s | grep -i linux > /dev/null 2>&1; then
> AC_DEFINE(LINUX_STDIO)
> fi
>
> It's not perfect by any means, but it will (a) be right most of the
> time, and (b) will generally err on the side of caution.
I've wondered the same thing myself. Richard?
Chris
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