> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:00:57 +0100 > From: Guido Draheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The end of the discussion can only be to change the compilation > behaviour globally - making 64bit off_t the default if that is > supported by the system, and dropping the settable off_t altogether.
I suppose we could change Autoconf so that largefile-mode is the default, and you need to invoke a new macro AC_SYS_SMALLFILE if you want 32-bit off_t applications on 64-bit off_t hosts. That wouldn't solve the problem in general, but it would solve it for programs that use Autoconf.
