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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:03:54 -0400
From: "writeonce@...ipix.org" <writeonce@...ipix.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: fopen64 and friends as aliases
On 04/15/2014 10:21 AM, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 06:59:46AM -0700, writeonce@...ipix.org wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> I could not find in the archives any discussion of the above topic, and
>> was therefore wondering: would it be possible to have fopen64 and friends
>> (fseeko64, ftello64, tmpfile64) as aliases of the non-prefixed functions,
>> rather than having them #define'd as synonyms? This will make most of the
>> musl-llvm patch unnecessary, and could probably help with other packages
>> as well.
>> Kind regards,
>> zg
> For some of them like stat64, the #define is necessary anyway since
> there is a struct that also needs to be mapped. So it's not so simple.
> In any case, the aliases already exist for binary compatibility, but
> some of them would be masked by these defines even if we declared them
> in the public headers.
>
> Really what you're asking for is just a workaround of a nonsensical
> bug in llvm, which should just be fixed. There is no excuse for the
> hack they're doing with namespaces; instead the names should just be
> properly prefixed to avoid clashing.
I understand. In that case, and for those functions that do not require an extra structure mapping, what is the advantage of
#define fopen64 fopen
over
FILE *fopen64 (const char *__restrict, const char *__restrict);
If the weak alias is already there anyway, then using the latter should only "penalize" (by adding a reference to the extra symbol) those apps/libs that use fopen64 in the first place. Is that correct?
>
> Rich
>
>
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