Hi, Tim Newsome <nuisance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > A while back I wanted to open this huge satellite image I downloaded > from NASA, and the Gimp required more than 2Gb of swap space. It > didn't work, so I wrote a new tile-swap.c which makes additional > swap files once the current one hits 1Gb. this shouldn't be necessary since the current code should handle large swap files (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74478). > Also, the following diff > needs to be aplpied: > > --- gimp-1.3.7/app/base/tile-private.h 2001-12-03 05:44:50.000000000 -0800 > +++ gimp-1.3.7-tiles/app/base/tile-private.h 2002-08-03 18:59:37.000000000 -0 > 700 > @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ > * for swapping. swap_num 1 is always the global > * swap file. > */ > - off_t swap_offset; /* the offset within the swap file of the tile data. > + guint64 swap_offset;/* the offset within the swap file of the tile data. > * if the tile data is in memory this will be set to -1. > */ > TileLink *tlink; IMO off_t is the correct type here. Since we use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE, off_t should be 64 bits long if your OS supports such large files. guint64 is definitely wrong since an offset should always be a signed value. Salut, Sven
