_set_fmode?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 03:41:12PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mar 18 08:41, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > On Mar 17 21:15, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> +#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
>> 
>> > The !defined(__CYGWIN__) is not necessary because gcc for Cygwin
>> > doesn't define _WIN32.
>> 
>> gcc does not define it. But the w32api headers DO.
>
>Hmpf, right.
>
>> >   extern int _fmode;
>> >   _fmode = O_BINARY;
>> 
>> I didn't know you could access it directly, outside of cygwin1.dll.
>
>Well, it's defined in the application itself.
>
>> > But anyway, using binmode.o is much more elegant, IMHO.  I don't see
>> > what speaks against using it.
>> 
>> Well, now that I see libbinmode.a, nothing.
>
>Don't use the libFOOmode.a files.  They don't do what you want.
>Actually I think we should remove them better sooner than later.

No, I've always meant to make these work as planned.  It is possible but
I've never gotten around to it since I created them.

cgf

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