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_G_fpos64_t in glibc 2.2


Hi,

gcc 2.95.2 libio seems to have a problem with _G_fpos64_t being a struct. It ends up using it as a typedef for streampos, which in turn gets passed to functions (err...methods) which expect a long long int. In glibc 2.1.3, _G_fpos64_t was an __off64_t, and gcc was fine.

I can think of several ways to fix this. But the first question that comes to mind is:

Should glibc have a backward-compatibility #ifdef for this, should gcc be ported to glibc2.2, or both?

GCC:
It seems to me that overriding _G_fpos64_t, orchanging gcc to refer to _G_fpos64_t->__pos may be the easiest fix, but probably has deeper implications. Maybe it shouldn't be using it at all...

I won't go into detail here--it would be faster to do the fix and make it available. And it's most likely a discussion for another list.

Perhaps this is a known problem, or already fixed, butI guess my main concern is that (once again) the latest official `releases' on the GNU ftp site don't work together.

Where should we go from here?

Thanks,
JF


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