Re: largefile64 on ports

[Kevin Ryde]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> What I was suggesting is to have only
> one version of each function that uses, say, `scm_off_t' and
> `scm_size_t' which both turn out to be 64-bit data types.

(You only mean off_t here of course, there's no variation in size_t.)

Having off64_t unconditionally would, I believe, need
_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE in ports.h, but it's bad in general to force such
options in library headers like guile's.

A plain off_t is good for current source compatibility, and for the
convenience that if you're interfacing with a plain off_t library then
it's annoying to have to have explicit range checks down from off64_t.