Re: AC_SYS_LARGEFILE

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2023-09-20 05:52, Evgeny Grin wrote:
> If you need have a function with "file offset" argument then use either 
> 'uint64_t'

Although your other advice is good, this one is suspect. I'm glad I 
didn't follow similar advice to use 'int32_t' or 'long' for file offsets 
back in the day.

Also, to be pedantic, the types int64_t and uint64_t are optional in 
POSIX, and portable programs shouldn't use them unconditionally.
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.