24 Jan
2013
24 Jan
'13
3:46 a.m.
Ronald Natalie scripsit:
Why does the FILE structure go as the first argument
in some functions
(similar to the way UNIX tends to do things) and at the end of others?
I think it goes at the end in every case except for varargs functions,
where we wouldn't be able to know which one was last easily.
Why on earth did they preserve the silly fread/fwrite
size feature
that just multiplies the two middle args together long after it was
realized that portability doesn't demand making such a distinction.
I like the idea: essentially it's about reading or writing an array
of a specified type.
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