fseek() vs. fseeko()

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Wed Jun 20 07:04:00 GMT 2012


On Jun 19 18:27, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >
> > Ok, then this is a bug in the RTEMS targets using 64-bit off_t.
> No. This is a bug in newlib.
> 
> fseeko etc. are supposed to take abstract types "off_t".
> 
> RTEMS relies upon this assumption, but obviously can't handle this.
> 
> > Since > the fseeko64() etc. are non-standard this should be
> invisible for the > user.
> 
> Agreed. They should not be used anywhere and be removed from newlib.

That's obviously not possible for backward compatibility.


Corinna

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