[patch, update] PR25289 Large file IO

Janne Blomqvist Janne.Blomqvist@tkk.fi
Sun Jul 23 10:02:00 GMT 2006


FX Coudert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> I understood FX comment to mean that gfc_offset is sort of redundant 
>> since it's always off_t anyway, i.e. one could do a search-and-replace 
>> in libgfortran replacing all occurences of gfc_offset with off_t.
> 
> That's not what I meant. In fact, wouldn't there be cases where we could 
> use something other than off_t for gfc_offset (like an off64_t), for 
> large files support on some systems?

Right. I should drink my morning coffee before offering technical opinions.



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Janne Blomqvist



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