Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>>>Hmm. Windows reports an offset size of 4 bytes on a dump I
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>>just made
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>>>>... is that relevant? What governs it?
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>>>[ looks again... ] Hm, that is a 40Gb dump Kevin is
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>>complaining of,
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>>>isn't it. Do our Windows builds have LARGEFILE support?
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>>I think from a cursory investigation the short answer is no,
>>but they probably could. If so, that should definitely go on
>>the TODO list. Windows gurus, any thoughts?
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>Windows certainly supports large files. I don't see why we wouldn't pick
>this up in autoconf, perhaps the mingw libraries don't?
>Definitly worth investigating, no time for 8.1, so putting it on TODO
>seems very good :-)
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>
There is no fseeko in the Windows libraries, nor any provision in the
mingw headers that I can see for a 64 bit off_t. So we would need to
roll our own to some extent - I think we need more than just a bit of
configure cleverness.
However, there is a Windows library routine to do a 64bit seek and
return the file position, so we could fairly easily implement fseeko and
ftello based on that. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt__lseek.2c_._lseeki64.asp
cheers
andrew