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diff --git a/manual/creature.texi b/manual/creature.texi index bb7f730915..56acf97a88 100644 --- a/manual/creature.texi +++ b/manual/creature.texi @@ -148,15 +148,15 @@ This macro was introduced as part of the Large File Support extension (LFS). @comment (NONE) @comment X/Open @defvr Macro _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -If you define this macro an additional set of function gets available -which enables to use on @w{32 bit} systems to use files of sizes beyond +If you define this macro an additional set of function is made available +which enables @w{32 bit} systems to use files of sizes beyond the usual limit of 2GB. This interface is not available if the system does not support files that large. On systems where the natural file size limit is greater than 2GB (i.e., on @w{64 bit} systems) the new functions are identical to the replaced functions. The new functionality is made available by a new set of types and -functions which replace existing. The names of these new objects +functions which replace the existing ones. The names of these new objects contain @code{64} to indicate the intention, e.g., @code{off_t} vs. @code{off64_t} and @code{fseeko} vs. @code{fseeko64}. @@ -168,18 +168,18 @@ not generally used (see @code{_FILE_OFFSET_BITS}. @comment (NONE) @comment X/Open @defvr Macro _FILE_OFFSET_BITS -This macro lets decide which file system interface shall be used, one +This macro determines which file system interface shall be used, one replacing the other. While @code{_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE} makes the @w{64 bit} interface available as an additional interface -@code{_FILE_OFFSET_BITS} allows to use the @w{64 bit} interface to +@code{_FILE_OFFSET_BITS} allows the @w{64 bit} interface to replace the old interface. -If @code{_FILE_OFFSET_BITS} is undefined or if it is defined to the -value @code{32} nothing changes. The @w{32 bit} interface is used and +If @code{_FILE_OFFSET_BITS} is undefined, or if it is defined to the +value @code{32}, nothing changes. The @w{32 bit} interface is used and types like @code{off_t} have a size of @w{32 bits} on @w{32 bit} systems. -If the macro is defined to the value @code{64} the large file interface +If the macro is defined to the value @code{64}, the large file interface replaces the old interface. I.e., the functions are not made available under different names as @code{_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE} does. Instead the old function names now reference the new functions, e.g., a call to @@ -233,10 +233,10 @@ get very strange errors at run time. If you define one of these macros, reentrant versions of several functions get declared. Some of the functions are specified in POSIX.1c but many others are only available on a few other systems or are unique to GNU libc. -The problem is that the standardization of the thread safe C library -interface still is behind. +The problem is the delay in the standardization of the thread safe C library +interface. -Unlike on some other systems no special version of the C library must be +Unlike on some other systems, no special version of the C library must be used for linking. There is only one version but while compiling this it must have been specified to compile as thread safe. @end defvr |