------- Comment #4 from jb at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-07-29 12:46 -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> Is there a particular reason why we can not change this to off_t with 4.5.?
>
Yes, it would break the ABI. As it's such a minor issue, IMHO it can be
postponed until we need to break the ABI for other reasons (e.g. the new array
descriptor for 4.6 and so on).
If one really wanted to fix it, we could have a new symbol in the library with
the correct prototype, and 4.5 could use that and older releases of gfortran
keep using the existing one. That can be done with symbol versioning, or just
manually. But I'm not sure it's worth the bother.
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