Eric Blake wrote:
> --- doc/functions/fseek.texi 1 May 2007 15:11:38 -0000 1.1
> +++ doc/functions/fseek.texi 24 May 2007 16:21:36 -0000
> @@ -15,4 +17,7 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib
> @item
> On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code
> {errno}
> upon failure.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{fseek} does not work
> +correctly with files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use fseeko instead.
> @end itemize
> --- doc/functions/ftell.texi 1 May 2007 15:11:38 -0000 1.1
> +++ doc/functions/ftell.texi 24 May 2007 16:21:36 -0000
> @@ -16,4 +18,7 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib
> @code{fflush}, @code{ftell}, @code{ftello}, @code{fgetpos} behave incorrectly
> on input streams that are opened in @code{O_TEXT} mode and whose contents
> contains Unix line terminators (LF), on some platforms: mingw.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{ftell} does not work
> +correctly with files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use ftello instead.
> @end itemize
This text makes no sense. I'm correcting it like this:
--- doc/functions/fseek.texi 24 May 2007 16:59:21 -0000 1.2
+++ doc/functions/fseek.texi 28 May 2007 14:06:22 -0000
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set
@code{errno}
upon failure.
@item
-On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{fseek} does not work
-correctly with files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use fseeko instead.
+On platforms where @code{long} is a 32-bit type, @code{fseek} does not work
+correctly with files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use @code{fseeko}
+instead and to invoke the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.
@end itemize
--- doc/functions/ftell.texi 24 May 2007 16:59:21 -0000 1.2
+++ doc/functions/ftell.texi 28 May 2007 14:06:22 -0000
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
on input streams that are opened in @code{O_TEXT} mode and whose contents
contains Unix line terminators (LF), on some platforms: mingw.
@item
-On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{ftell} does not work
-correctly with files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use ftello instead.
+On platforms where @code{long} is a 32-bit type, @code{ftell} does not work
+correctly with files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use @code{ftello}
+instead and to invoke the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.
@end itemize
Bruno
