Re: Large File Support

[Guido Draheim]

address@hidden wrote:
> This is somewhat off topic so feel free to respond privately.
>
> We want to add LFS to our package.  I currently do not know what this 
> involves:
>
> I know there's the defines:
>
>   -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
>
> but I'm not sure how portable that is.  Our package also gets built on
> VMS and Windows (using MSVC) so I don't know how portable that is.
>
> What I'm looking for is some example code that supports LFS, and that is 
> also built in multiple environments that includes Windows using MSCV.
>
> Can anyone point me to some example source code?

Please have a look at my LFS propaganda site at
     http://ac-archive.sf.net/largefile
and feel free to mail me anything that's not clear
after reading it up. My zziplib project has even
gone to the next step of being a dualmode library.

Windows support is not included however since its
compiler headers do not support the posix LFS magic,
so unix libs get compiled in pre-'95 mode always.
It might be interesting to develop a drop-in
header file for projects that would care to do so.

cheers,
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