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Re: Linux vs. libio
- To: jbuck at synopsys dot com (Joe Buck)
- Subject: Re: Linux vs. libio
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 99 18:17:29 PST
- Cc: geoffk at cygnus dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
I wrote:
> Are you sure that you understand Mark's proposal? I ask this because
> your assertion is incorrect -- there would be two separate libio's
> involved. (This is not a new thing: we used tricks like these back
> in the libc5 days sometimes).
Whoops, it appears that I was assuming that Mark was thinking of doing
things this way, but now I see that this is not at all clear. But yes,
libio as originally written was designed to be used this way (either
as both the C and the C++ I/O implementation, or as only the C++
implementation).