Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> paste does not compile, because it tries to instantiate two FILE
> variables just for the purpose of having values for FILE* to
> recognize later.
Thanks for reporting this. I agree with Paul Jarc that the proposed
fix wouldn't work in general, so
Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Proposed fix (in paste.c):
>
> static char dummy_closed;
> static char dummy_endlist;
> #define CLOSED ((FILE*)&dummy_closed)
> #define ENDLIST ((FILE*)&dummy_endlist)
The C standard allows undefined behavior for such casts, since the
dummy va
The POSIX API does not define a way to do anything useful with
non-pointer FILE variables, so the diet libc (www.fefe.de/dietlibc/)
defines FILE as opaque data type.
The result is that paste does not compile, because it tries to
instantiate two FILE variables just for the purpose of having values
