Re: Adding new information to scm_t_port (was Re: always O_BINARY?)

[Andy Wingo]

On Thu 28 Feb 2013 04:24, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> Instead of having 'input_cd' and 'output_cd' point directly to the
> platform's iconv_t structures, let's have them point to our own internal
> structure(s) that hold the needed transcoder state.  This could include
> things like the state for internally-implement encoding(s) (e.g. UTF-8
> BOM handling), EOL style, and iconv_t pointer(s) if appropriate.

Great idea.

I would call it a generic "port-private" data structure; it is not
limited to transcoder state.

  struct scm_t_port_private;
  #define SCM_I_PORT_PRIVATE ((struct scm_t_port_private*)((ptob)->input_cd))

MHO :)

Andy
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