[coreboot] [SerialICE] romcc changes for mingw32 environment

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Fri Nov 20 23:24:20 CET 2009


Am 20.11.2009 22:26, schrieb Peter Stuge:
> Maybe you can use fdopen() to tur the fd into FILE * once size is
> known?
>
> When done, just fclose() is sufficient, close() is not needed (and
> will fail, since fclose() on fdopen()ed fds will close()). Confused
> yet? :)
>    
Stefan reminded me on how cbfstool does it: fopen, fseek to the end, 
ftell, fseek to the beginning. I don't want to use a relatively obscure 
call like fdopen() when the aim is portability, but thanks for the idea.

Only leaves the free(..) call removal around.


Patrick




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