Re: Cleaning up FILE in stdio..

In article <200802261524.30384.jhb@xxxxxxxxxxx> you write:

This is assuming that the contents and layout of FILE are not a
public ABI (i.e. we malloc the things internally and consumers should
just treat the pointer value as a cookie and not grub around in the
internals).

Most interpreted languages grub around in the internals, as
(historically) do a number of <stdio.h> macros. Historically Emacs
did so as well (I suppose you can call it an interpreted language).

Comments?

I think you have the right idea but this will break the ABI in a way
that can't be fudged with symbol versioning.

-GAWollman

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