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Re: The manual erroneously says that fpos_t is off_t in the GNU system
Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> writes:
>>-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.
> [...]
In glibc 2.1 fpos_t was just a typedef for off_t - that's as far as I
understand not an opaque data structure.
I'm committing my last version now with some minor changes,
Andreas
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