[Zlib-devel] Explicit link to libc

[William A. Rowe Jr.]

On 4/4/2010 1:29 AM, John Bowler wrote:
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> The runtime, the C support library, seems to use the approach of providing a second API.  'fseek' is 32 bit throughout, but _fseeki64 is the same with a 64 bit offset (likewise _ftelli64).  That makes sense to me because fseek/ftell are actually speced in ANSI-C to return 'int'.

Given that we are working in fd's and not HFILE's, this is the way to go.

The off64_t type on win32 is __int64, which makes the fseeki64 make a lot of sense.
That family of functions existed at least since msvcrt.dll / studio 6 / msvc 12.

Bill