[PATCH 1/3] Change _offset type from int to _off_t

[Sebastian Huber]

On 11/26/2012 05:30 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> > >Any suggestions?
>> >
>> >Lets introduce
>> >
>> >#if defined(__rtems__) || X
>> >   typedef _off_t __sFile_off_t;
>> >#else
>> >   typedef int __sFile_off_t;
>> >#endif
>> >
>> >somewhere.
> That doesn't sound right to me.  As I outlined in my previous reply,
> it seems that using int was always wrong and _off_t is the right thing
> to do for all targets.

Yes, I also think that this int is completely wrong, but I cannot judge what to 
do for other targets than RTEMS.  We have a bug vs. backward binary 
compatibility trade off.  For RTEMS it is more important to fix the bug.

>
> RTEMS or, FWIW, 64 bit Cygwin (which doesn't exist yet but will have the
> same problem) are more or less no-brainers.  My problem, and that's what
> I'd like to have input on is, how do we handle backward compatibility
> for affected 16 bit or LP64 64 bit targets?

For LP64 targets we can use the __sFile_off_t from above if we want to favor 
backward binary compatibility.  I really have no idea on 16-bit targets.  It 
seems that nobody used FILE at all or only with small files on them.

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