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Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes: > Before anybody gets more excited about this, I have modifications > which don't require setting the file position to the end. The reason > I can live with this is that some more functions get simplified. I > didn't do it initially this way since the extra code isn't justified > by the little bit of speed gain. Fine. > In general, it is not acceptable that positive development is hindered > by broken code. There never ever was any document saying that the > file position is such and such after fopen. People relying on it are > simply wrong. And even though this code might now survive sometime > longer it does not mean it should not be fixed. How should the broken code get fixed? Can you just describe it priefly - and I'll try to fix at least ld... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.inka.de http://www.suse.de/~aj
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