Paul Eggert wrote:
the ftello
substitute needs to worry about overflow only on hosts where long int
is wider than off_t. But I don't know of any such hosts and don't
expect that there will ever be any.
Too late, Windows is one.
I assume you're talking about IA-64 Windows. But as I understand it,
long int is 32 bits on that platform, and off_t is 64 bits, so it's
not a problem.
Nope, x86_x64 Windows. I realize gcc isn't ported there yet, but that's
how the VC compilers work. I'd like to hope gcc would Do Things Right
when it is ported, but on further thought I suppose it can't since it
would break system headers :-(.
Why would you assume IA64? x86_64 *is* after all already a viable target
for GNU software (using the MSVC compilers on SUA, at any rate)...
Anyway, as you say, I don't think this is a problem anywhere since even
32-bit Windows has true 64-bit data types (unlike the excitement that is
NSK with only signed 64-bit! :-)), even MS just *had* to be different
(as always).
--
Matthew
When on POSIX, do as POSIX mandates.
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