Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] fseek cont: reading file position beyond 32 bits

[Stephane Fillod]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:21:48PM -0500, cswiger wrote:
> Hi - Not a big issue, I'm experiment with 'ftell' to read the
> current position in a big file, it would be nice to know 'where'
> in a 1.5 hour recording we are listening to for later reference.
> pos=ftell(*fp) works as expected, but only up to 2^32/2. It
> appears to be a limitation in ftell(), as returning "long long"
> and pre-dividing by d_itemsize still hit the same barrier -
> returning "long long" made no difference and pos=ftell(*fp)/d_itemsize
> returns errors at the 2^32/2/4 (float data in this case).
> 
> Any ideas? Again, not a showstopper. Current data file is 13Gb.

Looks like you will have to use ftello() and define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE.

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SF