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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01d9507 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +@node ftell +@section @code{ftell} +@findex ftell + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ftell.html} + +Gnulib module: ftell + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function mistakenly succeeds on pipes on some platforms: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +This function produces incorrect results after @code{putc} that followed a +@code{getc} call that reached EOF on some platforms: +Solaris 11 2010-11. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function produces incorrect results immediately after @code{fseek} on some +platforms: +HP-UX 11. +@item +@code{fflush}, @code{ftell}, @code{ftello}, @code{fgetpos} behave incorrectly +on input streams that are opened in @code{O_TEXT} mode and whose contents +contains Unix line terminators (LF), on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +On platforms where @code{long} is a 32-bit type, @code{ftell} does not work +correctly with files larger than 2 GB, even when the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} +macro is used. The fix is to use @code{ftello} instead. +@end itemize |