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<<On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 06:49:37 +1100, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> said:

> exponential growth in the number of syscalls: Consider a hypothetical
> system that has two off_t sizes and two time_t sizes - it will need 4
> stat() syscalls (and maybe others).

Actually, no; there are just two options:

1) Data types other than off_t might be C99 ``extended integral types''.

2) Data types other than off_t are not C99 ``extended integral types''.

...since we never supported the LFS extensions.

-GAWollman


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