Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] fseek cont: reading file position beyond 32 bits

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:15, Stephane Fillod wrote:
> > > Looks like you will have to use ftello() and define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE.
> >
> > What is the define for?
>
> This is to turn the usual 32 bit off_t type into a 64 bit type.
> Under GNU/Linux, see ftello(3) and /usr/include/features.h

Weird..
Seems kind of strange to have ftell and ftello available if your off_t is the 
same size as an int.

> > On my system (FreeBSD) ftello() is all you need.
>
> Lucky you. 64bit system owners are also on the lucky side.

This is a 32 bit system :)

> Better yet, they may even mmap the whole file :*)

Heh that is probably slower on a modern x86 system than read/write (so I am 
told)

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