using _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 with a non-gcc compiler

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Tue Nov 6 12:16:00 GMT 2001


Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:

> Since the symbols 'dirent64' and 'rlimit64' are not mentioned by
> POSIX, this patch doesn't violate POSIX namespacing.

Of course it does.  Every symbol defined in system headers which is in
the user namespace (and all these symbols are) must be defined or
reserved in the standard.  Otherwise it's a violation.

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