compile-error: stdin is not a constant

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 05:53:59PM +0000, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Maybe this will work (1):
> 
> FILE *foo = (FILE *) STDIN_FILENO;


No no no no no!  STDIN_FILENO is a -number-, not a -pointer-!

> In a similar situation, I learned from Tom Rini that the correct way
> would be (2)
> 
> static file *file ;
> static void file_construct (void) __attribute__((constructor));
> static void file_construct (void) { file = stdin; }

Yes, that's it.  gcc specific, but works.  (1) is DEFINITELY wrong.


Dan

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