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Re: [patch] compile: rm -rf -> ftw()+rmdir()+unlink() [Re: [patch] compile: Fix MinGW build]
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, Kai Tietz <ktietz at redhat dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, sellcey at imgtec dot com, yao at codesourcery dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 07:26:02 -0500
- Subject: Re: [patch] compile: rm -rf -> ftw()+rmdir()+unlink() [Re: [patch] compile: Fix MinGW build]
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> The temporary files being deleted are never larger than 2GB nor their
> size is read. So I hope nobody is going address these issues (I would
> add 32-bit hosts are not relevant anymore anyway).
Yes, they are still very relevant. A lot of programs do not want
to switch over to 64bit; and I think the x32 ABI might also have
stemmed from that.
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Joel