[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.2 available for testing

[Mark Adler]

On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Lasse Collin wrote:
> With zlib 1.2.3.2, this code doesn't compile without  
> _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE:

I guess it would be uncouth to #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE in  
zlibdefs.h.

So if I use -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, then the code I compile with  
doesn't have to?  Won't there then be type mismatches with routines  
that use off_t?  It seems to me that if I'm changing the meaning of  
off_t, I'm in exactly as dangerous a situation, if not worse, as I  
would be in defining _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE which only changes the  
meaning of z_off_t.

Maybe zlib shouldn't bother with any of this at all, and just leave  
it to the user to force off_t to the right type.

mark