From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14978 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2004 13:40:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14967 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2004 13:40:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO legolas.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.24) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 24 Sep 2004 13:40:13 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.143.223]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.3-GR) with ESMTP id CQS88446 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:39:57 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:40:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <01c4a23b$Blat.v2.2.2$cf8e5bc0@zahav.net.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: <20040924122406.GA10888@cygbert.vinschen.de> (message from Corinna Vinschen on Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:24:06 +0200) Subject: Re: [RFC] Suggested ways to remove the need for xm-go32.h Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <01c49d82$Blat.v2.2.2$23875ec0@zahav.net.il> <20040923050534.GA11936@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <200409232058.i8NKwHg4009186@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20040923211643.GA22829@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <01c4a223$Blat.v2.2.2$e47a6c80@zahav.net.il> <20040924122406.GA10888@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00397.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:24:06 +0200 > From: Corinna Vinschen > > How much sense does it make to allow "b" in fopen but no equivalent > in the low-level interface :-( My take of this is that Posix had no choice: the Posix C-related standards are a superset of ANSI/ISO C, and ISO mandates "b".