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Re: PATCH: MinGW readline -- revised
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 08:41:09PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 08:39:30PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> + #ifdef __MINGW32__
>> + /* On Windows, use a special routine to read a single character
>> + from the console. (Otherwise, no characters are available
>> + until the user hits the return key.) */
>> + if (isatty (fileno (stream)))
>> + return getch ();
>> + #endif
>
>> This doesn't look right. Shouldn't there be an ifdef there? It's a
>> minor point but it looks like this would potentially produce dead code.
>
>I'm not quite sure what you mean - but if you're talking about the code
>after the return statement, it looks like something's gone wrong with
>the indendation in this bit. Getch is only for consoles.
I forgot that getch was only for consoles. Somewhow I thought it could be
used for any stdin. Silly me. Windows.
cgf