Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010202202533.03ad6ec0@pop5.banet.net> X-Sender: usbanet DOT farley3 AT pop5 DOT banet DOT net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 20:32:14 -0500 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com From: "Peter J. Farley III" Subject: Re: lfilelength doc change Cc: "Mark E." In-Reply-To: <3A7ACD7F.17659.AE1F6A@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk At 03:08 PM 2/2/01 -0500, Mark E. wrote: >Hi guys, >After reading through the single Unix online docs and the LFS docs, >negative offsets >aren't considered valid. Therefore, I'd like to change 2^64 back to >2^63 and be done with it. OK by me, but then make it 2^63-1 instead of 2^64-2. 2^63-1 is the largest *positive* integer that will fit into a "long long", if I'm not forgetting my binary arithmetic. The "-2" in "2^64-2" was to exclude the equivalent of a signed return value of "-1" (which is, of course, unsigned 2^64-1). --------------------------------------------------------- Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org OR pjfarley AT banet DOT net)