Re: _wstat on Windows (actually stat stuff in general)

[Kean Johnston <kean johnston gmail com>]

On 9/27/2011 9:08 AM, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> On 09/26/2011 08:59 AM, Kean Johnston wrote:
> > Here's how I would define
> > the GStatBuf data type:
>
> Won't you break ABI if you're changing the layout of the struct on
> linux/unixes? As I understand this is not an issue on Windows since
> everyone ships the libraries with the binary, but it is on Linux.
Nope. On linux there IS no ABI to break - everything is #define'd to its 
libc name - so there is no real g_stat(). Any existing code out there will 
just be calling stat(). If we make this change however we will be 
introducing an ABI that will need to be maintained which is why its 
important everyone agrees the data types are wide enough.