On 2020-06-20 20:37:08 +0200, Thomas Orgis wrote: > Am Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:03:32 +0200 > schrieb Christian Klein <dvl...@gmail.com>: > > > A diff of the header files reveals that the i386 and amd64 versions are now > > different: > > > -# define syn123_resample_total syn123_resample_total_32 > > -# define syn123_resample_intotal syn123_resample_intotal_32 > > +# define syn123_resample_total syn123_resample_total_64 > > +# define syn123_resample_intotal syn123_resample_intotal_64 > > > I guess the problem was introduced by upstream. > > Indeed. I am upstream and I confirm that I wrote this. But I did not > intend to break multiarch … I just didn't think about it. This is a > fallback for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS not being defined by the client > application. The fallback is to define off_t as long, basically, which > differs on 32 or 64 bit arch. Well one could drop the fallback and > return an error that the client application needs to define > _FILE_OFFSET_BITS … but then, there is no good solution when you got > off_t sometimes as 32 bit and sometimes as 64 bit on the same platform, > depending on a switch. > > The largefile (off_t) stuff in libsyn123 is simpler than all the hoops > libmpg123 goes through, with implementing dual mode and wrappery in the > library. Here, the library works with fixed 64 or 32 bits and the > header shall choose the implementation that matches the client offset > size. It has the side effect of the fallback being different. > > You could argue that I should have just used int64_t externally, but > the unspecific off_t is the natural type for file/stream offsets … at > least I'd like to pretend that it is:-/ Same reason I use size_t for > memory sizes. > > Is it big trouble to separate the syn123 header into multiarch subdirs > to fix debian again? Would you rather have some switch in the same > header about native off_t/long size?
I am wondering why syn123 and mpg123 use different approaches to achieve the same thing. The mpg123-way of handling off_t using functions is known to work and doesn't require any quirks on the Debian packaging side. Why doesn't syn123 also use MPG123_LARGENAME? Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
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