On 02/06/17 11:00, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:> > 8 apparently, but off_t is documented as a cint32.> > https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/rtl/unixtype/off_t.html The declaration is {$if not defined(fs32bit)} off_t = cint64; { used for file sizes }{$else} off_t = cint;{$endif} The 64bit is active, IIRC the 32-bit is for use with FPC_USE_LIBC for whenthe debian oldstable still defined 32-bit as seek (even though even somewhatrelevant distros already defined 64-bit). FPC_USE_LIBC for linux and *bsd still is still hardly used afaik. Maybe we could clean it out. Why the documentation tool picks the $ELSEbranch I don't know. I grepped, and it didn't seem to find anything in fpdocor (doc/rtl) makefiles defining it.
Thanks, I'll code defensively. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
