mingw > 20001111: fstat bug: buffer overflow?

Reuben Thomas rrt1001@cam.ac.uk
Tue Feb 20 10:19:00 GMT 2001


> Which gcc version are you using?  There are different versions of the
> stat structure based on whether you are using CRTDLL or MSVCRT.  There
> is a bug in the specs file for gcc-2.95.2-7 in that __MSVCRT__ should be
> defined when -mno-cygwin is used.  The absence of this is what has
> caused your problem.

Merely #defining __MSVCRT__ in the right places doesn't help. I have to use
struct _stati64 and the _stati64 and _fstati64 functions explicitly to get
the right results. Perhaps there's something else going on? Or maybe I've
just misunderstood...

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