Re: Volunteer available

[Eray Ozkural (exa)]

"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> 
> Use what you have, and when the new version is available you can switch
> to that.  It sounds like what you have done is largely user-compatible
> what I'm doing.
> 

Sounds okay. What are you doing btw? ;)

> As for an internal implementation, I think this is essentially
> impossible.  It would require that you understand the internal format of
> FILE* on every single platform, which is basically impossible in any way
> that approaches portability, and even if that were possible all the
> functions that use FILE* would have to be compatible with a memory
> stream implementation, which seems just as unlikely.
> 

Yes, FILE* is a handle I see that. On second thought an internal
implementation seems to me very messy indeed. Perhaps you could redefine
FILE* to be a wrapper around the real handle but... I can't imagine
how kludgey that would be

>   eo> Alternatively, read.c might be rewritten to abstract all buffer/stream
>   eo> ops. I've written some compilers before, so I guess I might do that
>   eo> too ;) But I don't know if it would be smaller than the first solution.
>   eo> I'd say smaller is better.
> 
> Smaller is better, all things being equal.  But portable is far and away
> more important than smaller.  They're not even in the same ballpark.
> 

Yes, this portability game is really hard to grasp at times. Then it
seems that in order to do what I say, you have to go the second route.
Shall I give it a shot?

Cheers,

-- 
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: address@hidden
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo