Re: fseek() vs. fseeko()

[Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>]

On 06/20/2012 03:41 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On 06/19/2012 09:42 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > On 06/19/2012 04:08 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Along these lines, fgetpos and fsetpos are a bit tricky since they
> > > depend on the definition of fpos_t in include/stdio.h. Right now,
> > > only Cygwin defines fpos_t as 64 bit type in stdio.h, all other
> > > targets define fpos_t as 32 bit and fpos64_t as 64 bit type to make
> > > a clear distinction between the 32 bit and the 64 bit set of functions.
> Speaking for myself, I would like the methods to default to all 64-bit
> versions on RTEMS (when the CPU defaults to 64-bit).

This is non-reasonable, because it's unsuiteable for "small" targets, 
ineffective on some architectures and a waste of resources for some 
applications.

> > RTEMS has this in<machine/_types.h>:
> FWIW I think that list to use 64-bit types should be longer.

This list is hand-crafted for "big targets", based on user-demand.

Ralf