X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Fftell.texi;h=01d950704ccb89a3e5e863b8f46211619f4636c6;hb=9723bfe9bb9af8309314ad6230f7661000ba03b1;hp=993a87007859130a6ed5ffa050f52c9c235bbc58;hpb=f104dfe4e7676f832801a361a86f1e6387eb19b9;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi b/doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi index 993a87007..01d950704 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ Gnulib module: ftell Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item -This function mistakenly succeeds on pipes on some platforms: mingw. +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: @@ -25,9 +26,9 @@ 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. +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. The fix is to use @code{ftello} -instead and to invoke the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro. +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