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Date:      Mon, 5 May 2008 15:02:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@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:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0805051501440.6406@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <200805051459.29200.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200805051603.m45G3rrN089219@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080505184003.GL32532@elvis.mu.org> <200805051459.29200.jhb@freebsd.org>

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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?

-- 
DE



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