reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Jun 12 09:34:11 PDT 2013


On 6/12/13 11:59 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/12/2013 5:30 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 6/11/13 11:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> I think you meant "just flush once after using the FILE * for the
>>>> first time"
>>>
>>> I think it's a bad idea, it'll muck up the buffering (i.e. make it
>>> slower).
>>>
>>> The fix is when main() returns to do the flush there.
>>
>> I agree. One question is, should we flush all buffers upon termination?
>> fflush(null) would do so.
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Flushing-Buffers.html
>
> I haven't heard about the fflush(null) thing. That may be gnu-specific.
> I don't think that works on Windows.

It's quite an old standard feature albeit obscure, I found it and forgot 
about it a couple of times already. Works everywhere, see 
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/ferror/ and 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9yky46tz(v=vs.80).aspx

> But yes, all open files should be flushed on termination. It's what C's
> stdio does already.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10344


Andrei



More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list