In message <199906221357.GAA03873@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, Jason Thorpe writes:
>On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:43:21 +0900 (JST) 
> Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> wrote:
> > Both ISO-C standard Ammendment.1 and proposed C99 DIS says that if a
> > user requests, FILE includes the current parse state which represents
> > multibyte character to wide character translation state,

>Well... you can cheat, here :-)

>Since the internal members of FILE aren't available to users, you don't
>*have* to keep this info *directly* in FILE.  It would be another structure
>logically associated with a given instance of a FILE.  You could reference
>these other structures in a hash table, using a FILE * as a value to hash
>for the lookup.

Evil!  Evil!

But entirely correct, yes.  "as-if".

That's still pretty ugly.

-s