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From: Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Standardization of Minix.
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Date: 23 Aug 89 16:38:14 GMT
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In article <67@tor.nhh.no> edb_tom@tor.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) writes:
>A couple of observations regarding non-standard details in Minix:
>
>- The FILE struct used in our stdio uses different levels of
>  indirection from the normal "standard".  Also, the members
>  of the struct have wrong names.  Shouldn't this be fixed,

The ANSI Dpans (May 88) doesn't say much about what FILE really is -- it's
all defined by the implementation.

If  ANSI defined functions/macros are used, and the programs include
<stdio.h>, there should be no portability problems.  Pretty much every
implementation I've seen differs somewhat in how stdio.h is implemented,
the Minix implementation strays a little further from the norm.


marty
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