Re: HEADS UP: ABI changes in HEAD

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> The first part was to separate the exported part of FILE from the
> internals to allow us to change the internals at will. It also broke
> a Ruby extension, which insists in taking the size of FILE, but that's something I
> don't care about.

It *is* evil to fiddle around with FILE and not FILE* objects, still 
programs are doing this (and might fail more or less silent). FreeBSD 
worked around this by indirecting private data into a private allocated 
struct. Can we build something to error out if somebody does a sizeof(FILE)?

cheers
  simon

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