Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:13:49 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: iostream concern
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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Vik Heyndrickx wrote:

> IIRC the standard tells that the only parameter to fsetpos should be the
> result of a fgetpos. The returned value has no meaning to the user, so
> it will be never used in offset calculations ;-) So these functions may
> be broken, but nothing bad could happen (as long as the user sticks to
> standard use).

The same considerations apply to _G_fpos_t (if my assumption about its 
being a wrapper for fpos_t is true).