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Re: misleading statement in bugs.html#known
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:39:43 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: misleading statement in bugs.html#known
On 5 Dec 2001, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>|> The point is that glibc allows you to *assign* to stdin, so it is
>|> no longer constant. This is a questionable feature..
> No. The real reason is that using the address of a static object is a
> nightmare in context of maintaining binary compatibility. Platforms that
> use copy relocations will lose if the size of the FILE type changes.
Would (one of) you (who knows this stuff) mind updating bugs.html?
Gerald
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