Re: position.hh compile error C4146 (VisualStudio 2017)

[Hans Åberg]

> On 18 Aug 2018, at 17:03, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I don’t remember why I wrote it this way, but today I don’t care much about 
> INT_MIN here.  I think the code has become too complex for what it meant to 
> do.  Also, maybe I should have sticked to int instead of trying to unsigned, 
> but it’s too late to change that :)

Maybe std::fpos and std::streamoff could be used, which are guaranteed to be 
able to represent the maximum file size.