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Named initializers and most other C99isms don't work in Visual C++ .NET 2005 in C mode. This is troublesome for Instantbird. This remedies the problem for the cipher code, which allows Instantbird's libpurple build to work again. committer: John Bailey <[e-mail]>

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the
HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.