Re: abort and stderr

[Eric Blake]

Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org> writes:

> Yes, we need line numbers before we can do anything about it.
> 
> 
> Since POSIX [1] now says that abort() *MAY* flush the stdio streams (not
> *SHOULD* any more!), we need to flush it ourselves.

Even POSIX 2008 states only this (remembering that fclose implies fflush):

The abnormal termination processing shall include the default actions defined 
for SIGABRT and may include an attempt to effect fclose( ) on all open streams.

in a CX shaded paragraph, which means C99 doesn't require it.  So your patch is 
correct.

> 
> I applied this patch.

Thanks.  I tweaked the ChangeLog to mention that it is also required on mingw.

-- 
Eric Blake