PATCH: Fix struct stat [__USE_FILE_OFFSET64] in sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/stat.h

Tue Jun 3 11:55:00 GMT 2003

Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> writes:

|> Hi.
|> 
|> This bug is visible for programs compiled with
|> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 on platforms where the ABI says there is
|> no alignment-padding between structure elements.  AFAIK only
|> cris-axis-linux-gnu matches that description.  The bug causes
|> struct stat and struct stat64 to have different layout.

How about using your own bits/stat.h?  m68k-linux has a similar problem
and does that.  IMHO the generic version should really be moved to i386.

Andreas.

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