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Re: [PATCH] glob: Avoid copying the d_name field of struct dirent [BZ #19779]

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 23:02:38 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] glob: Avoid copying the d_name field of struct dirent [BZ #19779]
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Florian Weimer wrote:

I feared that gnulib has to support compilers
which cannot return structs.


No, gnulib assumes C89 or better so it's OK to return a struct.

References:
- [PATCH] glob: Avoid copying the d_name field of struct dirent [BZ #19779]
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: [PATCH] glob: Avoid copying the d_name field of struct dirent [BZ #19779]
  - From: Paul Eggert
- Re: [PATCH] glob: Avoid copying the d_name field of struct dirent [BZ #19779]
  - From: Florian Weimer

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