Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3F4A5483.20306@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:25:07 -0400 From: "J. Johnston" Organization: Red Hat Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corinna Vinschen Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, newlib@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: How to use __DYNAMIC_REENT__ correctly in multithreaded applications? References: <3F40EC4D.30704@gmx.net> <3F4134BF.826C3690@redhat.com> <3F41CF80.1030909@gmx.net> <3F466995.9000904@redhat.com> <20030822193432.GV7858@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3F4676A8.30904@redhat.com> <20030822202927.GY7858@cygbert.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20030822202927.GY7858@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 04:01:44PM -0400, J. Johnston wrote: > >>For clarification, I am not referring to a function, I am referring to the >>struct stat64 >>which is needed as an argument to _fstat64_r or _stat64 for that matter. >>There is no struct >>stat64 or struct _stat64 defined externally under Cygwin. The compiler >>fails because >>it does not know the size of the structure. Under linux, the type is >>defined and this is not a >>problem. > > > Cygwin has a struct __stat64. We could also define a struct stat64 > but this would be contrary to the effort to handle the new structures > transparent. struct __stat64 is struct stat from the applications > point of view. > Where in particular? I have tried this as well. Having it defined as empty is of no help. The compiler needs to know its size and access one of the fields. With struct __stat64 st; /home/jjohnstn/sourceware/src/newlib/libc/stdio64/fseeko64.c: In function `_fseeko64_r': /home/jjohnstn/sourceware/src/newlib/libc/stdio64/fseeko64.c:112: storage size of `st' isn't known -- Jeff J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/