ino_t type definition

[Joel Sherrill]

"Eugeny S. Mints" wrote:
> 
> Hi, All!
> 
> I investigated newlib-1.8.2 and 1.9.0 code and it seems
> ino_t type defined for rtems as short in both. It seems in
> this situation we will have a problem if, for example, create
> more than 65536 files in IMFS. Unfortunately, for my MSDOS
> fs implementation this is more important because of my
> ino-to-file assignment algorithm which often uses ino
> numbers greater than 0xFFFF. It seems int type more
> appropriate for ino_t.
> 
> Comments?

This seems unnecessarily limiting.  What does Cygwin and the other
newlib targets use?

The addition of __USE__MAIN__ for the sh-rtems target is forcing a 
new gcc patch and new gccnewlib RPMs so it seems reasonable to 
change this at the same time.  
 
>                                 Eugeny Mints
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