On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 10:44 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I note that this is a deliberate difference between the elfutils libelf > > interface and other libelf implementations, which use off_t in the > > public interface and don't have LFS support on 32bit systems. We were > > lucky enough to use off64_t, then loff_t, from the start, so we always > > support LFS as far as possible. > > Actually for early releases we used off_t in the public header but compiled > the library with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, so the ABI was broken for vanilla > 32-bit clients of the library.
You are right. I didn't look back far enough. elfutils 0.129 and earlier did indeed use off_t in the public headers. So not always, but only for the last 8 years. Still a respectable time. At least a couple of years longer than I have been involved with the project.
