Re: More thoughts on Lua 5.2

[Duck <duck@...>]

> Er, shouldn't the C library be able to handle
> large files using FILE?

Depends. fseek() takes a long (i.e. a signed long) as the file offset, so 
if long is 32-bits then you can't get past 2GB-1.

Anyway, a default build of Lua on my 32-bit Linux has a 2GB-1 size limit 
on files it can process. (My QEMU virtual machine disk images are often 
bigger than that.)