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diff --git a/bfd/bfd-in.h b/bfd/bfd-in.h
index cf75f63758..30bc844b1b 100644
--- a/bfd/bfd-in.h
+++ b/bfd/bfd-in.h
@@ -160,16 +160,10 @@ typedef unsigned long bfd_size_type;
#endif /* not BFD64 */
-/* A pointer to a position in a file. */
-/* FIXME: This should be using off_t from <sys/types.h>.
- For now, try to avoid breaking stuff by not including <sys/types.h> here.
- This will break on systems with 64-bit file offsets (e.g. 4.4BSD).
- Probably the best long-term answer is to avoid using file_ptr AND off_t
- in this header file, and to handle this in the BFD implementation
- rather than in its interface. */
-/* typedef off_t file_ptr; */
-typedef bfd_signed_vma file_ptr;
-typedef bfd_vma ufile_ptr;
+/* An offset into a file. BFD always uses the largest possible offset
+ based on the build time availability of fseek, fseeko, or fseeko64. */
+typedef @bfd_file_ptr@ file_ptr;
+typedef unsigned @bfd_file_ptr@ ufile_ptr;
extern void bfd_sprintf_vma (bfd *, char *, bfd_vma);
extern void bfd_fprintf_vma (bfd *, void *, bfd_vma);