Re: closein, freadahead and ungetc

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 3/9/2008 5:22 PM:
| Eric Blake wrote:
|> |   - freadptr is changed to also return the size of the buffer.
|> |       extern const char * freadptr (FILE *stream, size_t *sizep);
|> |     When the return value is non-NULL, *sizep is set to the size of the
|> |     buffer whose address is the return value.
|>
|> Sounds fine to me.
|
| Here is the first part, the extended freadptr API.

FWIW, using the latest freadptr and freadseek, when compared to the prior
usage of getc, shaved off another 2% of M4 execution speed when running
autoconf on large projects like coreutils.  Thanks again for these APIs.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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