Re: Handling files >=2GiB with the io library

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Duck wrote:
>
> In other words, is it enough to "bigfileify" the io library by changing _only_
> the f_seek() function in libiolib.c like this: [...]
> Or do you need to compile everything with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS = 64 in order to
> get FILE* objects to tolerate being operated upon with 64-bit offsets?

Many functions in the API are switched by the preprocessor when you
compile with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS = 64 so I wouldn't expect your hack to
work.

Tony.
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