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Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:29:13 +0200 (EET)
From:	Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Sender:	peuha AT sirppi DOT helsinki DOT fi
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Suggested improvements
Message-ID:	<Pine.OSF.4.58.0311071212520.5324@sirppi.helsinki.fi>
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I have been thinking of some small possible improvements to djgp's libc.

First of these is fgetc/getc and fputc/putc.  These two pairs of
functions are completely identical, so maybe we could define fgetc to
getc and fputc to putc in stdio.h if ANSI allows it (if not, then
fgetc/fputc might be just stabs to getc/putc).

Second, do we ever expect close do something that _close can't do?  I'm
asking this because now close is a stub to __close which calls _close...
(This reminds me of the joke that every computing science problem can be
solved by adding a layer of indirection. :-)  It seems to me that it
would be more sensible to define close to _close in libc/stabs.h.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/

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