Re: [RFC6 PATCH v6 00/21] ILP32 for ARM64

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 17 May 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> I think it has become easier to override now and we just need to
> update sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/generic/bits/typesizes.h to set
> 
> #define __INO64_T_TYPE          __UQUAD_TYPE
> #define __OFF64_T_TYPE          __UQUAD_TYPE
> #define __OFF_T_MATCHES_OFF64_T        1
> #define __INO_T_MATCHES_INO64_T        1
> 
> for new architectures (obviously not the ones that already use the
> 32-bit types). I haven't tries this, so there may be other things
> that are required.

I think more than that would be needed to get struct stat to match and get 
things aliased for that (which is presumably desirable).

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Joseph S. Myers
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