svn commit: r227487 - head/include

[David Schultz]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2011-11-14 09:21, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 04:18:48PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
> >> Author: theraven
> >> Date: Sun Nov 13 16:18:48 2011
> >> New Revision: 227487
> >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/227487
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>   The spec says that FILE must be defined in wchar.h, but it wasn't.  It
> >>   is now.  Also hide some macros in C++ mode that will break C++
> >>   namespaced calls.
> >>   
> >>   Approved by:	dim (mentor)
> > 
> > I think this change is wrong. Whic spec are you referring to? C99
> > defines FILE only in 7.19.1#2 (stdio.h). In other headers FILE is used
> > as parameter type for functions but that does not mean it is exported to
> > user space.
> 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/wchar.h.html

It's a niggling detail, but that's an extension to the C standard,
so properly speaking, it belongs in an
  #if __POSIX_VISIBLE >= 200809 || XSI_VISIBLE
(or something like that).  The formals were struct __sFILE *
instead of FILE * for that reason -- see r103177.

P.S. You're looking at a very old version of POSIX.  Check out:
     http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/