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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:58:55 -0500
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ssize_t: int -> signed long [PATCH]
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> The only reason FILE is actually defined in stdio.h is because ANSI
> requires it.  I didn't want to define it at all.  No programs should
> take advantage of its public definition, so go ahead and change it (as
> long as the size doesn't change).  If programs break, they're cheating
> anyway.

How does it (require it)?  However, if you want to provide
efficient putc and getc macros, you pretty well have to make its
definition public.

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