[parisc-linux] Include trouble

Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:02:26 +0000 (GMT)


> One dilema is that off_t is supposed to
> be good for file offsets, which these days means it should be 64 bits.

off_t should be a natural type. So it should be 32bits. glibc 2.2 deals with
the 64bit I/O stuff nicely

> However I'm leaning towards leaning with the older 32-bit off_t because
> we might not want to be the first ones to fix all the problems with
> making it 64 bits on a 32-bit machine.

Go 32bit. Linus will probably refuse to touch a 32bit port using longlong
internally for off-t