[GRASS-dev] off_t question

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2013/4/2 Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>:
> What should be fixed is this part in Grass.make:
>
>         # crude hack for vector LFS, LFS_FLAGS should be set by configure
>         ifdef USE_LARGEFILES
>         LFS_CFLAGS = -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
>         endif
>
> _FILE_OFFSET_BITS shouldn't be set on a system with a 64-bit "long".
>
> The main problem is that the LFS tests were taken wholesale from
> cdrtools and no-one understands them.

thanks for clarification, what kind of fix do you suggest?

> On the plus side, the warnings don't indicate a real problem. They
> arise because C considers "long int" and "long long int" to be
> distinct types even when they have the same size and representation.

Just note that diglib is using PRI_OFF_T for off_t formatting, in
vector lib is used mostly %ld.

Martin

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