[PATCH 1/2] Add --with-ilp32-large-off_t

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
> On 07/06/2012 04:05 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On x86-64, ILP32 with large off_t (64-bit) can be either -mx32 or -m32
>> with "-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64".  This patch adds
>> a configure time option to choose which one to use for ILP32_OFFBIG.
>> Any comments?
>
>
> I'm not sure what you're doing, this sounds really wrong to me and I smell
> an ABI breakage. So, please help me to understand the problem you're trying
> to solve.
>
> Could you show a short example program that has a problem and explain the
> problem a bit more?
>

See:

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-05/msg02093.html

-- 
H.J.