[Eug-lug] LP64

[Neil Parker]

Jacob Meuser wrote,
>there's definitely some, uh, interesting, stuff in the IBP/LoRS
>codebase.

Hmm.  Sounds like the authors weren't aware of the Ten Commandments for C
Programmers[1] (in this case, number 10 is the one being violated).

>now that I look closer, there are some reads and write associated with
>data.
>
>here's how _that_ gets setup
>
>  ssize_t (*xio_read_v)(void *stream)(void *buf, size_t count);

Huh?  That doesn't even parse.  (Gcc complains, "error: `xio_read_v'
declared as function returning a function".)

               - Neil Parker

[1] http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html