Re: [AD] bugfix for files > 2GB under unix

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 14:56 +0200, Hein Zelle wrote:
> Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> 
> > > I changed it to use that #define instead of stat64.
> > 
> > My manpage doesn't mention that define (it's older than Chris' manpage 
> > though).
> > Can someone please check that nothing was broken by this patch and that it 
> > works correctly for their system? I'll do that myself for my system when I 
> > have a good test programme.
> 
> If I understand correctly, that define changes ALL file system calls
> in your program to use the 64 bits functions, e.g. fopen() will be
> silently changed into fopen64().  I'm not sure what that means for
> binary compatibility, but it hasn't caused any problems for me so far.
> You may want to check if that define extends into the user's program
> as well through allegro.h (even though I don't think it would have any
> adverse effects).  If you want to keep it allegro-only you can always
> specify it as a -D option in the makefile.
> 

The #define is used only once inside ufile.c - so there should be no
change at all for users. Only the two new functions return now an
uint64_t which can hold file sizes > 2GB.

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Elias Pschernig