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internally, the idiom of passing nmemb=1 to fwrite and interpreting
the return value of fwrite (which is necessarily 0 or 1) as
failure/success is fairly widely used. this is not correct, however,
when the size argument is unknown and may be zero, since C requires
fwrite to return 0 in that special case. previously fwrite always
returned nmemb on success, but this was changed for conformance with
ISO C by commit 500c6886c654fd45e4926990fee2c61d816be197.
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previously, fgets, fputs, fread, and fwrite completely omitted locking
and access to the FILE object when their arguments yielded a zero
length read or write operation independent of the FILE state. this
optimization was invalid; it wrongly skipped marking the stream as
byte-oriented (a C conformance bug) and exposed observably missing
synchronization (a POSIX conformance bug) where one of these functions
could wrongly complete despite another thread provably holding the
lock.
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this header evolved to facilitate the extremely lazy practice of
omitting explicit includes of the necessary headers in individual
stdio source files; not only was this sloppy, but it also increased
build time.
now, stdio_impl.h is only including the headers it needs for its own
use; any further headers needed by source files are included directly
where needed.
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to deal with the fact that the public headers may be used with pre-c99
compilers, __restrict is used in place of restrict, and defined
appropriately for any supported compiler. we also avoid the form
[restrict] since older versions of gcc rejected it due to a bug in the
original c99 standard, and instead use the form *restrict.
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