[wip:binutils] Large corefile support

Ian Lance Taylor ian@wasabisystems.com
Sat Jan 17 20:24:00 GMT 2004


jtc@acorntoolworks.com (J.T. Conklin) writes:

> If file_ptr is changed to be defined in terms of long/off_t/off64_t
> (depending on what's available on the host), it seems worthwhile to
> create a bfd_fseek() that wraps fseek/fseeko/fseeko64 (likewise for
> bfd_ftell() and ftell/ftello/ftello64) so that conditionals for each
> type are isolated in a single place.

Yes, I agree, and we already have bfd_seek and bfd_tell.  Nothing else
should call fseek or ftell on the FILE underlying a BFD.

Ian



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