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Re: using _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 with a non-gcc compiler
Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:
|> Here is a patch to that effect. But note that for 'stat', 'statfs', 'statvfs'
|> the #define approach doesn't work:
|> struct stat buf;
|> would expand to
|> struct (* (int (*) (const char *, struct stat *)) stat64) buf;
|> which gives a syntax error.
|>
|> Therefore in these cases the 'static inline' approach is used. It is
|> namespace clean but has the slight drawback that &stat is not the
|> same in different compilation units
This will break find. It uses &stat in different compilation units and
depends (rightly) on its uniqueness. It's a basic property of function
addresses mandated by ISO C.
|> - but this drawback is already present in <sys/stat.h> when using GNU C.
No, with GNU C this works correctly, &stat resolves to a function in
libc_noshared.a, due to the use of extern inline.
Andreas.
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