[Boost-users] Re: Re: boost::filesystem problems

"Victor A. Wagner Jr." wrote in message news:6.1.2.0.2.20040817224639.057dc6f0@mail.rudbek.com...

At Tuesday 2004-08-17 15:14, you wrote:

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"Delfin Rojas" wrote in message

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As far as file size I think you can get it from the stream.

Yes, but std::streamoff is not guaranteed to be large enough to hold the size of really huge files.

really? how'd the committee manage to mess that one up? or are you saying some implementations are deficient in their specification of std::streamoff?

It's typical for streamoff to be an alias for a 32-bit long. Currently there's no type the committee could have specified which would cover the full range of file sizes commonly supported by OS's. Jonathan