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Diffstat (limited to 'libdimensionxx/cookie-fopencookie.cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | libdimensionxx/cookie-fopencookie.cpp | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/libdimensionxx/cookie-fopencookie.cpp b/libdimensionxx/cookie-fopencookie.cpp index e165c8d..1d1f813 100644 --- a/libdimensionxx/cookie-fopencookie.cpp +++ b/libdimensionxx/cookie-fopencookie.cpp @@ -26,12 +26,11 @@ #endif #include <stdio.h> -// The conundrum: libdimension and libdimension-* use C I/O, with FILE*'s. -// We want to use C++ I/O with std::i/ostreams. If present, we use the -// nonportable GNU stdio extension fopencookie(), which creates a FILE* with -// custom read/write/seek functions. BSD also has a similar function, funopen() -// which we should use too. Failing in all that, fall back on a tmpfile() -// buffer (see cookie-tmpfile.cpp). +// The conundrum: libdimension uses C I/O, with FILE*'s. We want to use C++ I/O +// with std::i/ostreams. If present, we use the nonportable GNU stdio extension +// fopencookie(), which creates a FILE* with custom read/write/seek functions. +// BSD also has a similar function, funopen() which we should use too. Failing +// in all that, fall back on a tmpfile() buffer (see cookie-tmpfile.cpp). namespace Dimension { |