[Bug regex/5945] New: regoff_t wrong has posix type

[Bug regex/5945] New: regoff_t wrong has posix type

[vik at forgottenroots dot de]

The type regoff_t should hold at least the same amount of bytes as off_t and
ssize_t 
here: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/regex.h.html
It's defined in regex.h as 'int` so it won't hold off_t on a 64bit machine or a
32bit machine where off_t 64bit support is enabled (#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64)

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           Summary: regoff_t wrong has posix type
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: regex
        AssignedTo: drepper at redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: vik at forgottenroots dot de
                CC: glibc-bugs-regex at sources dot redhat dot com,glibc-
                    bugs at sources dot redhat dot com


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[Bug regex/5945] regoff_t wrong has posix type

[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2008-03-30 04:30 -------
This is known but obviously cannot easily be fixed.  Suspended until somebody
takes this serious to actually take a stab at a solution.

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[Bug regex/5945] regoff_t wrong has posix type

[bonzini at gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From bonzini at gnu dot org  2008-08-18 10:09 -------
You mean, it cannot be easily fixed because it breaks the ABI?

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[Bug regex/5945] regoff_t wrong has posix type

[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2008-08-18 14:04 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> You mean, it cannot be easily fixed because it breaks the ABI?

Yes.

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[Bug regex/5945] regoff_t wrong has posix type

[bonzini at gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From bonzini at gnu dot org  2010-09-09 15:44 -------
On bug-gnulib, the following suggestion was made by Bruno Haible:

> [glibc could] offer some preprocessor macro that makes regoff_t 64-bit wide -
> like it was done for off_t.
> 
> Would glibc need to export additional symbols for this? Yes.
> 
> Would a compiled glibc need to contain two copies of the regex code? No, the
> 32-bit version could be a thin wrapper around the 64-bit version.

I guess this would count as "somebody takes this serious to actually take a stab
at a solution".  Would _REGEX_OFFSET_BITS be okay for you as a macro?

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