[RFC] Make _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 default.
Rich Felker
dalias@aerifal.cx
Fri Mar 14 05:45:00 GMT 2014
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 05:30:06PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thu 13 Mar 2014 12:55:51 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > Proposing patches is clearly very premature here. First, we should see an
> > analysis of the extent to which types affected by such a change appear in
> > the ABIs of libraries in GNU/Linux distributions (together with tools
> > distributors can use to identify affected libraries so they can manage
> > such a change in their distributions, if consensus on such a change were
> > reached).
>
> seems like the discussion has stalled to the same point it has in the past.
> this patch can be used by people to do actual compile tests and see what
> happens. i'm debating adding it to the next Gentoo glibc version to gather
> some actual data since no one seems to want to move w/out data, but no one
> wants to gather data either.
> -mike
Thank you. That would be most appreciated.
Rich
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