On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Richard Guenther wrote: > Would be nice if LFS would be mandatory on the new ABI, thus > off_t being 64bits.
That's certainly abstractly better (and something BSDs do better than GNU/Linux). I expect you'd run into a few complications actually making a 32-bit glibc port like that (lots of the generic 32-bit code will want to build separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions as functions; maybe it will be easy to build things with those just ending up as duplicates, but making them aliases, as they generally are for 64-bit, could be harder). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com