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From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: mips64 and wordsize-64
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 22:02:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2106032158240.30711@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874keer9xt.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>

On Thu, 3 Jun 2021, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:

> Apparently, mips64el-linux-gnu-n64-nan2008-soft and other MIPS targets
> do not use sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64.  Is this an oversight,
> or is there a deeper reason for that?

Historically, sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64 assumed that struct stat 
and struct stat64 had the same layout, which is not the case for MIPS n64.  
It's possible that all such assumptions that are untrue for n64 have now 
been factored out so this is no longer an issue.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-03 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-03 20:05 Florian Weimer
2021-06-03 22:02 ` Joseph Myers [this message]

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