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Re: PATCH: Fix struct stat [__USE_FILE_OFFSET64] insysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/stat.h
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, dev-etrax at pulsar dot homelinux dot net
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:55:42 +0200
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix struct stat [__USE_FILE_OFFSET64] insysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/stat.h
- References: <200306031011.h53ABEX4016645@ignucius.se.axis.com>
Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> writes:
|> Hi.
|>
|> This bug is visible for programs compiled with
|> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 on platforms where the ABI says there is
|> no alignment-padding between structure elements. AFAIK only
|> cris-axis-linux-gnu matches that description. The bug causes
|> struct stat and struct stat64 to have different layout.
How about using your own bits/stat.h? m68k-linux has a similar problem
and does that. IMHO the generic version should really be moved to i386.
Andreas.
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