Re: guile-1.8.3 Intel Mac Leopard compilation fails due to no off64_t

[Roger Mc Murtrie <rogermc@iinet.net.au>]

> Re: Darwin's overall story on 64-bit APIs.
There maybe something on the Apple Developer website.
I'll see if I can find something that might be useful.
I'll recheck my off_t comments later.

Regards
Roger

On 11/01/2008, at 9:53 AM, Neil Jerram wrote:

> Roger Mc Murtrie <rogermc@iinet.net.au> writes:
>
>> Seems to be 32 bit?
>
> Well, according to your previous email:
>
>> checking size of off_t... 8
>
> Which means 64 bit.
>
> I'm struggling to get my head round Darwin's overall story on 64-bit
> APIs.  For off_t, it seems to have decided that it's fine to go
> unconditionally to 64 bits.  But for other things, like stat, it
> provides both xxx() and xxx64() functions.  And for yet other things,
> like inodes, it seems the size is controlled by whether the containing
> program defines __DARWIN_INO64_T before including the relevant
> headers.
>
> What's the big picture?  Is there a standard or other documentation
> somewhere that explains this?
>
> Thanks,
>       Neil