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Re: Trouble executing example translator from Hurd Hacking Guide

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Thank you. Yes, I misunderstood. All three methods work (independently) now.

Samuel Thibault writes:

> Hello,
>
> Andrew Eggenberger, le dim. 28 juil. 2019 04:21:21 -0500, a ecrit:
>> It's working now,
>
> Good :)
>
>> Both putting #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 and switching the offset
>> type in the read function to loff_t
>
> ? Only one of the two should be needed. Note that the #define needs to
> be very first, before #includes, since it's driving what includes are
> supposed to do.
>
>> There's also a small bug in the program itself. Instead of assigning
>> the char '1' in the for loop, it's assigning the int 1, causing it to
>> output the character with the ascii code 1.
>
> AIUI that was the purpose, but apparently it would be less surprising to
> emit '1' chars, so I changed that too.
>
> Samuel


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Andrew Eggenberger

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