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Re: [PATCH v2] libelf: Use int64_t for offsets in libelf.h
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:44:39 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] libelf: Use int64_t for offsets in libelf.h
> I note that this is a deliberate difference between the elfutils libelf
> interface and other libelf implementations, which use off_t in the
> public interface and don't have LFS support on 32bit systems. We were
> lucky enough to use off64_t, then loff_t, from the start, so we always
> support LFS as far as possible.
Actually for early releases we used off_t in the public header but compiled
the library with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, so the ABI was broken for vanilla
32-bit clients of the library.