On 09/26/2014 04:36 PM, Thomas Mack wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On the ftello / fseeko man pages, it is written that #define
> _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 will turn off_t into a 64 bit type.
>
> As we had some harder time finding a solution for a problem related
> to this, it should be mentioned on the man page that this definition
> has to appear before including (any?) standard libraries.
>
> My system: Ubuntu 14.04.1; the man page states a date of 2001-11-05
Hello Thomas,
I made the text
On some architectures, both off_t and long are 32-bit types, but
defining _FILE_OFFSET_BITS with the value 64 (before including
any header files) will turn off_t into a 64-bit type.
Thanks for your note.
> Thank you for all your good work!
Bitteschön!
Cheers,
Michael
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