On 12/30/2010 11:57 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>
>> Would be nice if LFS would be mandatory on the new ABI, thus
>> off_t being 64bits.
>
> And avoid ambiguous cases that x86-64 ABI has, e.g. whether
> caller or callee is responsible for sign/zero extension of arguments, to
> avoid the need to sign/zero extend twice, etc.
>
Ehwhat? x86-64 is completely unambiguous on that point; the i386 one is
not.
-hpa
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