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

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:55:42 +0200

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

If it's indeed due to the exakt same problem, then that solution
is faulty.

>  IMHO the generic version should really be moved to i386.

But the "generic" bits/stat.h would still be buggy and as such
at least confusing.  Look at bits/stat.h: compare struct stat64
with struct stat *with __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 defined*.  See the
difference?  There should be no difference.  That's the bug.  My
patch has absolutely no effect on platforms that pad the
structs; it's a generic fix.

brgds, H-P