Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 20:33:22 -0500
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199603230133.UAA13662@delorie.com>
To: lav AT yars DOT free DOT net
CC: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <199603212012.XAA04411@gemini.yars.free.net> (lav@yars.free.net)
Subject: Re: Faster floppy I/O


> I'm going soon to add to stdio a flag indicating that ungetc was called for
> current buffer, that will allow lseeking in buffered data without
> dos calling. Maybe I'll test the new version with ld and report the
> results. I just need to download ld sources.

The buffering was taken out to deal with a text-file-mode problem.
ungetc always just wrote back to the existing buffer and has never
needed a flag.