Bug#34996: libc6-dev: stdout etc, no longer constant

["J.H.M. Dassen" <jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl>]

[Espy, please add this to a FAQ]

On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 14:24:42 +0000, Giuliano Procida wrote:
> programs using things like this at the top level
> 
> FILE * foo = stderr;
> 
> no longer compile

This is not a bug in libc6-dev. 

See http://wwwold.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/ :

:       7.19  Input/output <stdio.h>
:
:       7.19.1  Introduction
[...]
:               stderr
:               stdin
:               stdout
:
:       which are expressions of type ``pointer to FILE'' that point
:       to  the  FILE  objects  associated,  respectively,  with the
:       standard error, input, and output streams.

The expressions are not required to be constant, as they would have to be
constant for the construct you're using to work.

HTH,
Ray
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