Re: Reply to Mr Verdoolaege about wide chars

[Rod Chamberlin]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:56:09AM +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:18:55AM +0200, philippe blain wrote:
> > > > A function CANNOT return a structure,
> > >
> > > Says who ?
> > >
> > K&R apparently.
> > Does anyone have the ansi standard at hand ?
> > I'm pretty sure it is allowed in ansi C.
> 
> likewise (I'm certain that it's allowed, though it's of course not
> necessarily efficient).
> 
> > You might want to post a patch. Since Thomas hasn't reacted
> > to this issue (at least not publicly), he may very well accept it.
> 
> maybe/maybe not - it would be nice to make things simpler, but I don't
> see a good way to do that in the slice we're discussing.
> 

I think the thing you need to beware of if you are returning structures is
thread safety, since the structure is usually returned in a standard
common block of memory rather than in a register/on the stack.

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