Re: large file support on solaris

[Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>]

Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
> > 2009-03-31  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
> >
> >     PR 9992
> >     * configure.in: Import Solaris specific largefile test from
> >     bfd/configure.in.
> >     * configure: Regenerate.
> >
> > Is there a reason you didn't apply this to the other configure.in 
> > files (gas, ld, gprof) in binutils?
>
> Because the problem was that the size of the fields in the stat 
> structure vary depending upon whether largefile support is enabled or 
> not, and the only situation I could find where a stat structure was 
> passed between differently configured pieces of code was when various 
> files in the binutils/ sub-directory called the bfd_stat_arch_elt 
> function in the bfd library.

yup, that's the bug I found :)

> > Without applying everywhere we can get inconsistent setting of 
> > _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
>
> Does this introduce any bugs ?
>
> Note - I do not have any objection to copying the largefile test into 
> the configure files in those directories, I would just like to know if 
> it is going to fix a real problem.

At the moment, I don't know -- I'm investigating.  I'm not sure whether ino_t is 
exposed via a bfd header for instance.  I'll let you know what I find.

nathan

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