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Re: [gnugo-devel] socket support for Windows: patch
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Arend Bayer |
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Re: [gnugo-devel] socket support for Windows: patch |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:11:54 +0100 (CET) |
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> > This is much more difficult to overcome than I expected. The main
> > complication is around gprintf() that is used for e.g. "%1m" output.
> > It is completely unaware of the need to not use `stdio.h' functions.
> > Does anyone has any clever ideas? With what I can think of, the
> > patch quickly starts spreading all over GNU Go.
>
> I don't have any clever ideas but as a general comment I don't think
> we should go out of our way to support C environments which are so
> badly designed that you can't do anything useful with standard IO.
On the other hand, I think it would be useful to have a working version
of gtp.c that can easily be used for windows programs (that do not run
in DOS-mode as gnugo).
Arend