Re: [Libcdio-devel] [Libcdio-help] Large file support and binary compatibility on 32 bit systems

[Bastiaan Timmer]

There is something mysterious here because the typeset for off_t does 
not come from libcdio but rather from from the system. On Ubuntu it 
seems it comes from <sys/types.h>.
Well, the typedef comes from <sys/types.h> here as 
well, but what it is defined as is dependant on _FILE_OFFSET_BITS which 
does come from libcdio. Or at least I think it does, as it's set to 32 
on my system, but after running 'configure', a config.h is generated 
(and included in all cdio sources) that has the line '#define 
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64' in it. That define is what breaks programs linking
 to the library on my system (and other systems with 32 bit off_t's by 
default). So, I thought (but I could be wrong), that maybe one should 
just never change the value of FILE_OFFSET_BITS from the system default. And 
only provide large file enabled functions through specialized functions (like 
[fl]seek64) on 32-bit platforms.

So the fact that there is 
garbage in the upper 4 bytes on 32-bit systems feels to me like a design
 flaw.
The upper 4 bytes of the off_t received by cdio_paranoia_seek are not exactly 
garbage though, they are simply the 4 bytes of the int parameter ('int 
whence'). So you could actually work around this problem by giving the off_t a 
value of 0, and setting the int whence to the frame you want to seek to. The 
garbage value that ends up in the int will always (?) fall through the switch 
(in paranoia.c line 2479) and behave like it was set to SEEK_CUR. Not a very 
nice solution though... ;)


There now is. When libcdio installs it installs ... 
include/cdio/cdio_config.h  and that has values that were set from its 
config.h. Previously I had installed a truncated version of config.h. I 
just made a change in git to store the entire config.h. 

But I have a little trepidation with this change, so it is an experiment and 
may change. The C preprocessor symbols are from a global namespace. That is the 
names there are not prefaced with say CDIO_.  _FILE_OFFSET_BITS in particular 
is such a global namespace variable. So this means you may need to be careful 
with the order of includes because some other include may set _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 
and, at least on Ubuntu, <sys/types.h> uses the value of the #define.
Great, I just checked out the code and it seems to work. But, indeed, it might 
be a good idea to rename the symbols somehow as it may cause trouble. I don't 
know how difficult that would be though.

Right. I'll put on the list of things to do to change cdio_paranoia_seek to use 
an int32_t rather than an off_t. 
Right, well that is awesome! That would completely solve my problem and make 
the rest of this message somewhat less important (for me), but still...

Anyway, thanks for the help en quick reply,
Bas Timmer