-/* glibc defines (_IO_)putc_unlocked() to __overflow() in some cases. */
-#ifdef HAVE_STRUCT__IO_FILE__FILENO
-HOOK_FD2(int, __overflow, f->_fileno, _IO_FILE *, f, int, ch)
+/* glibc defines (_IO_)putc_unlocked() to a macro which either updates the
+ * output buffer or calls __overflow(). As this code is inlined we can't
+ * handle the first case, but if __overflow() is called we can color that
+ * part. As writes to stderr are never buffered, __overflow() is always called
+ * and everything works fine. This is only a problem if stdout is dupped to
+ * stderr (which shouldn't be the case too often). */
+#if defined(HAVE_STRUCT__IO_FILE__FILENO) && defined(HAVE___OVERFLOW)
+/* _IO_FILE is glibc's representation of FILE. */
+HOOK_FILE2(int, __overflow, f, _IO_FILE *, f, int, ch)