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Re: gnulib largefile support
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: gnulib largefile support |
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Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:59:01 -0800 |
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On 11/07/11 12:38, Eric Blake wrote:
> Large file support IS desirable on all platforms.
Well, I can imagine a small embedded system where files and
streams cannot possibly be larger than 2 GiB. On such a system
it might be reasonable to use gnulib modules in small-file mode.
If this is a real issue, and if someone takes the time, I think
it'd be OK to add small-file support to gnulib, because I don't
think it'd be much of an intrusion on the existing code. (Not
that I'm volunteering! I left the 32-bit file world long ago,
thank goodness.)
More likely, I expect, is that guile was simply misbuilt in
small-file mode.