Re: HEADS UP: installworld gotchas

[Daniel Eischen]

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 you
> > :   intend to change the sizeof(FILE), or every single third party applicatio
>     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 :-)

-- 
Dan Eischen


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