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Re: PATCH: Fix struct stat [__USE_FILE_OFFSET64] insysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/stat.h


Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> writes:

|> > From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
|> > Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:57:45 +0200
|> 
|> > Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> writes:
|> > 
|> > |> No, it's definitely *not* "too late"!  What *exactly* makes you
|> > |> think it's "too late"?
|> > 
|> > Because that will be a binary incompatible change.
|> 
|> That's my point (made several times now): it will *not* be a
|> binary incompatible change.  Nowhere.

But _removing_ the padding is.  That's the point I was making: the padding
became useless as soon as dev_t started growing.

Andreas.

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