"Daniel Stenberg" <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se> said:

> I think I'm now in favour of adding magic similar to this in an external
> public curl header file:
>
> #if defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__WATCOMC__)
> /* MSVC and Watcom compilers */
> typedef signed __int64 curl_off_t;
> #else
> #if defined(__GNUC__) && defined(WIN32)
> /* gcc on windows */
> typedef long long curl_off_t;
> #else
> /* "normal" approach */
> typedef off_t curl_off_t;
> #endif
> #endif

I was mistaken; Watcom do support 'long long' natively.

Why not use "#if defined .. / #elif defined .." syntax to avoid the clutter
with multiple "#endif"' ? Are there still old pre-processors out there?

> ... and then we document that type (curl_off_t) for _LARGE options, and we use
> that internally all over where we currently use off_t.

Sound good to me.

--gv

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