[RFC] Suggested ways to remove the need for xm-go32.h

[Andreas Schwab]

Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:36:21PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> writes:
>>>That's nothing GDB should be concerned of, probably, but that's
>>>definitely a leak in the definitions.  How much sense does it make to
>>>allow "b" in fopen but no equivalent in the low-level interface :-(
>>
>>Doing the text conversion on the low level creates a heap of problems
>>with POSIX semantics.  The stdio level is much better suited for this
>>task.
>
> Yeah, but it makes things pretty tough for a system that has to support
> tough, like what happens when you do an fdopen on a file that has been
> open()ed with O_TEXT and then do an 'fseek'?

That's what I meant with heap of problems.

Andreas.

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