The manual erroneously says that fpos_t is off_t in the GNU system

Philip Blundell philb@gnu.org
Tue Jun 5 13:55:00 GMT 2001


>-In the GNU system, @code{fpos_t} is equivalent to @code{off_t} or
>-@code{long int}.  In other systems, it might have a different internal
>+In the GNU system, @code{fpos_t} is an opaque data structure that
>+contains internal data to represent file offset and conversion state
>+information.  In other systems, it might have a different internal
> representation.

How about:

  @code{fpos_t} is an opaque data structure.  In the GNU system, it contains
  internal data which represents file offset and conversion state information.
  [...]

p.


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