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[PATCH] Deprecate 32-bit off_t support
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 13:39:59 +0100
- Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate 32-bit off_t support
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cc20102fda..2f601c6217 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -85,6 +85,15 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
__attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
+* A future release of glibc will use a 64-bit off_t type on all
+ architectures (as currently available with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 on
+ 32-bit architectures). Building new applications with
+ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=32 will no longer be supported. The off64_t type and
+ the 64-bit function aliases (such as fstat64) will remain available under
+ the appropriate feature test macros. In preparation, libraries should
+ stop using off_t in public header files, and use off64_t (or a fixed-width
+ type such as int64_t or uint64_t) instead.
+
Changes to build and runtime requirements:
* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.