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Re: not a nice patch
- To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
- Subject: Re: not a nice patch
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: 11 Feb 1999 02:33:08 +0100
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- References: <r2socehvvn.fsf@happy.cygnus.com>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:
|> I had to change one more type for 32bit Intel systems: ino64_t. It used
|> to be 32 bits since this is what I was initially told is enough.
|> Nowadays (which NFSv3, CODA) we need to have 64 bit inode numbers. Oh
|> well.
|>
|> Fortunately the type is hardly used directly so far.
No, only by fileutils, sh-utils, textutils, make, ... See AC_LFS.
|> The only use
|> will be in stat64. Here we have some padding which I was able to take
|> out so that the struct len is the same.
No, it's not! The padding had only 16 bits!
Andreas.
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