Re: large file support on solaris

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Nathan,

> 2009-03-31  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
>
>     PR 9992
>     * configure.in: Import Solaris specific largefile test from
>     bfd/configure.in.
>     * configure: Regenerate.
>
> Is there a reason you didn't apply this to the other configure.in files 
> (gas, ld, gprof) in binutils?

Because the problem was that the size of the fields in the stat 
structure vary depending upon whether largefile support is enabled or 
not, and the only situation I could find where a stat structure was 
passed between differently configured pieces of code was when various 
files in the binutils/ sub-directory called the bfd_stat_arch_elt 
function in the bfd library.

> Without applying everywhere we can get 
> inconsistent setting of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.

Does this introduce any bugs ?

Note - I do not have any objection to copying the largefile test into 
the configure files in those directories, I would just like to know if 
it is going to fix a real problem.

Cheers
  Nick