__loff_t definition

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 13 08:07, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the default (non-Linux) __loff_t definition is currently
> 
> #ifdef __GNUC__
> __extension__ typedef long long int __loff_t;
> #else
> typedef long int __loff_t;
> #endif
> 
> this is probably a bug, since structure layouts should be independent of the
> actual compiler especially for a C library.

Indeed.  We should fix that since loff_t is supposed to be
always a 64 bit type afaics.

> For example _off64_t is defined like this:
> 
> #ifndef __off64_t_defined
> __extension__ typedef long long _off64_t;
> #endif
> 
> In glibc __loff_t is defined via __quad_t.

We could introduce __quad_t as well.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat
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