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Re: file offsets used by fseek and ftell
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: file offsets used by fseek and ftell |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:35:50 -0600 |
On 23-Jan-2004, Alois Schloegl <address@hidden> wrote:
| The origin for introducing the STREAMPOS object was the ability to
| access files larger than 4GBytes. If the issue becomes a question
| whether octave should support, (1) access to files larger than 4GB or
| (2) FTELL returning a numeric value, I second the later.
If you (or someone) can show me a *portable* way to get the file
position as an integer, then we can convert it back. The motivation
for the change is to be able to support large files *and* allow Octave
to compile with future C++ systems that don't necessarily have
streampos/streamoff as a simple integer.
I'm not interested in converting all the internals of Octave to use C
stdio.
jwe