Re: [PATCH] canonicalize: add support for not resolving symlinks

[Bruno Haible]

Eric Blake wrote:
> I'd welcome a patch to gnulib to prove me wrong by fixing rpl_stat to be
> an object-like instead of function-like macro, all while still allowing
> compilation to succeed in all interfaces that take 'struct stat *' as a
> parameter, including when using those interfaces via function pointer.

And such a patch should not interfere with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, which
triggers a "#define stat stat64" on some platforms.

I don't think it's possible to satisfy all these requirements in C.
Defining stat() as a macro with arguments was the least evil.

Bruno