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Re: cr/lf conundrum
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: cr/lf conundrum
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 17:09:02 -0400
- References: <200005192027.QAA20516@envy.delorie.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 04:27:07PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>There are a couple of things I can do to prevent this type of problem
>in the future (namely, making getc/putc *not* be macros), but I can't
>think of a good solution to handle existing applications. I can think
>of many hacks, but they all have drawbacks.
>
>Ideas?
This is a tough one. The only "solution" that I see is to somehow keep
(p)->_r at 0 and always revert to using __srget(p) to retrieve the
character. This would involve some very creative bookkeeping in parallel
with with the stdio structure, though, I think. Bleah.
cgf