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From: Doug R. <df...@nl...> - 2005-10-02 21:15:04
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On Saturday 01 October 2005 02:09, Greg Parker wrote: > Nicholas Nethercote writes: > > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Tom Hughes wrote: > > > Absolutely, and that is the current situation, modulo changing > > > the type of the offset argument and the question of whether or > > > not we want to rely on mmap2. > > > > I think OffT should stay as word-sized, since it's meant to be a > > drop-in replacement for off_t which is word-sized. We could > > introduce LOffT (in pub_core_basics.h) which would be 64 bits. > > Note that some 32-bit platforms like Darwin and maybe FreeBSD > use a 64-bit off_t. All 4.4BSD derived systems (*BSD, Darwin) use 64-bit off_t on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. |