From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:13:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] MINGW: compat/mingw.h: do not attempt to redefine lseek on mingw-w64 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <535EB32B.4050209@web.de> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > On 2014-04-28 15.51, Marat Radchenko wrote: >> mingw-w64 has lseek defined in io.h. > [] >> #define off_t off64_t >> +#ifndef lseek >> #define lseek _lseeki64 >> +#endif > Is the commit message in line with the code? > > I would have expected something in this style: > > #if defined(__x86_64__) && ! defined(lseek)) > #include > #endif No, we want 64-bit off_t either way, to support large files. So we need the version that takes a 64-bit argument.