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Re: [RFC] Make _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 default.
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Denis Obrezkov <reprofy at etersoft dot ru>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:16:12 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Make _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 default.
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> On 03/05/2014 10:13 AM, Ondï1 yej Bï,Amlka 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.
>
> No, it's only an API change. But I'm not very sanguine about it anyway.
It can be an ABI change to other people's sources as if they used
off_t, now they have a different type.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski