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From: | "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: ifstream (FILENAME, ios::binary). Can't Read!!! |
Date: | Wed, 30 Jul 1997 20:19:38 -0400 |
Organization: | Cornell University http://www.cornell.edu |
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Nate Eldredge wrote: > > John M. Aldrich wrote: > >Art S. Kagel wrote: > >> > >> > BTW, I just wrote a little program to print out the maximum value of a > >> > 64 bit integer: > >> > > >> > 18446744073709551615 > >> Unsigned. Signed that would be: > >> 9223372036854775807 > > > >Showoff. :) But how can you read a negative number of bytes from a > >file? That was the implicit assumption in what I said. > ALL THIS IS MOOT. You can't even have a file larger than 2^32. DOS > (and I think Unix also) defines the file pointer as being 32 bits. So > there is no possibility to have more than a 4GB file. there are 64 bit unices. a year or so ago, there was an article in Unix Review (i think) discussing migration issues (32 -> 64 bit) -- Sinan ******************************************************************* A. Sinan Unur WWWWWW |--O+O mailto:sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu C ^ http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/ \ ~/ Unsolicited e-mail is _not_ welcome, and will be billed for. *******************************************************************
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