On filesystems with large inode numbers, such as overlayfs, attempting
to stat() a file on a 32-bit system using legacy syscalls can fail
with EOVERFLOW. If we opt-in to more modern "large file support"
syscalls, then source code references to functions like stat() are
transparently replaced with ABIs that support large file sizes and
inode numbers, such as stat64().
This cannot safely be done globally by Linux distributions, because
some libraries expose types like `off_t` or `struct stat` in their
ABI, meaning that enabling large file support would be an incompatible
change that would cause crashes. However, SDL appears to be careful to
avoid these types in header files, so it should be OK to enable this.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed
to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics
hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software,
emulators, and popular games including Valve's award winning catalog
and many Humble Bundle games.
More extensive documentation is available in the docs directory, starting
with README.md
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