[RFC6 PATCH v6 00/21] ILP32 for ARM64

[Andreas Schwab]

Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery.com> writes:

> 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).

Looking at sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/generic/bits/stat.h, there is at
least blkcnt_t that differs between stat and stat64.  And you probably
want to alias statfs and statfs64 as well, ie. fs{blk,fil}cnt_t.

Andreas.

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