Could I have a reality check please: is there no fpLSeek64() for files larger than 2Gb?

In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:

Could I have a reality check please: is there no fpLSeek64() for files larger than 2Gb?

Afaik, there is no such posix calls. In the past, most linux temporarily had some -64 calls while it left the main calls 32-bit to make transition smoother, but nowadays it is all 64-bit?

What does writeln(sizeof(off_t)); print ?

Marco van de Voort wrote

In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:> Could I have a reality check please: is there no fpLSeek64() for files > larger than 2Gb? Afaik, there is no such posix calls. In the past, most linux temporarily hadsome -64 calls while it left the main calls 32-bit to make transitionsmoother, but nowadays it is all 64-bit? What does writeln(sizeof(off_t)); print ?

8 apparently, but off_t is documented as a cint32.

https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/rtl/unixtype/off_t.html

In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:

8 apparently, but off_t is documented as a cint32. https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/rtl/unixtype/off_t.html

The declaration is

{$if not defined(fs32bit)}
    off_t    = cint64;          { used for file sizes          }
{$else}
    off_t    = cint;
{$endif}

The 64bit is active, IIRC the 32-bit is for use with FPC_USE_LIBC for when the debian oldstable still defined 32-bit as seek (even though even somewhat relevant distros already defined 64-bit).

FPC_USE_LIBC for linux and *bsd still is still hardly used afaik.

Maybe we could clean it out. Why the documentation tool picks the $ELSE branch I don't know. I grepped, and it didn't seem to find anything in fpdoc or (doc/rtl) makefiles defining it.

In our previous episode, Marco van de Voort said:

FPC_USE_LIBC for linux and *bsd still is still hardly used afaik. Maybe we could clean it out.

These sentences came close together while composing the message, so to be clear: I didn't mean cleaning out FPC_USE_LIBC, only the fs32bit define(with only two occurances)

Thanks, I'll code defensively.

Is this with the 3.1.1 fpdoc?

Mattias

In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:

Afaik Michael always works with trunk fpdoc, but of course the 3.0.2 docs were generated in march.

The $if support was added recently to pscanner.

Mattias

In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:

Ah ok, so it was $if vs $ifdef? Anyway, for now I added fs32bit deprecation to major version to do (where I keep track of the various deprecations to remove for a new branch).

If somebody uses this define, or what it might still be needed for, please drop me a mail.