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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: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:21:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix struct stat [__USE_FILE_OFFSET64] insysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/stat.h
- References: <200306041948.h54JmF75017743@ignucius.se.axis.com>
Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> writes:
|> > From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
|> > Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 21:32:50 +0200
|> > Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> writes:
|> > |> > From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
|> > |> > Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:57:45 +0200
|> > |> > 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.
|>
|> Huh?
|> I'm not removing any padding.
??? I didn't say that. That should have been done a long time ago.
Andreas.
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