On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:52:30PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > Personally, I would prefer the glibc headers to just set the LFS > macros to the 64 bit versions by default, so that rather than > taking extra steps to enable LFS, LFS would be the default and you > would then need to take extra steps to disable it.
> i.e. just default _FILE_OFFSET_BITS to 64 rather than 32. > If someone really, really, wanted 32 bit file offsets, they could > just set it back to 32 again. There are libraries in existence that (unfortunately) expose libc types that are sensitive to _FILE_OFFSET_BITS as part of their ABIs. Making a change like this without first identifying and handling those libraries would cause a mess. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
