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Re: strings and offsets >2G
- To: Michal Svec <rebel at atrey dot karlin dot mff dot cuni dot cz>
- Subject: Re: strings and offsets >2G
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:31:50 +0200 (MET DST)
- cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: Technical University of Gdansk
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Michal Svec wrote:
> Due to the limitation of file_ptr to long, the current implementation of
> strings doesn't support offsets larger than 2GB.
Shouldn't file_ptr be typedefed to off_t in the first place?
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