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Re: [RFC] Make _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 default.
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Denis Obrezkov <reprofy at etersoft dot ru>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 18:10:47 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Make _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 default.
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On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 11:42:39AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 03/05/2014 10:13 AM, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
>
> >Changing default would be better. I dig while how to do it and can not
> >find a nonugly solution. How should we do this?
>
> Isn't this a global ABI change? I don't think we can do this.
>
Then look for another solution. Perhaps adding warning when you use
functions without set _FILE_OFFSET_BITS to make package maintainers
slowly change situation?