Re: Work for developers

[Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 09:53:37PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > >>>>> "John" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
> >     John> What exactly is the problem?
> > 
> >     John> stdin should always be present before it starts running your
> >     John> code, and there's no const up there.
> > 
> > Under glibc2.1, stdin isn't a variable. it's a function call, a la
> > errno in glibc2.0.
> 
> Whoa, that seems to be rather stupid.  But in any case, still, you can 
> initialize variables to function calls, no?

Not in a global.  Something like:

FILE *output = stderr;

main()
{}

There is a way to do it, which involves GCC constructors; I don't
recall it off the top of my head.


Dan