At 06:31 AM 5/8/2004, you wrote:
This caught my eye since I have code that depends on Large File Support (LFS). Though, for reasons alluded to below, I get LFS via C stdio instead of C++ streams.
For the record, the LFS standard is here:
http://ftp.sas.com/standards/large.file/
I wonder if there would be complications if LFS were enabled in Boost by default?
I think it is for Boost.Filesystem now - see http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg60670.php
Yes, that's correct. The macro __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 is always defined when BOOST_POSIX is defined. So users of current CVS code don't have to do anything special to get 64-bit support. Note that the LFS standard document above seems to be out-of-date as far as the macro name is concerned. The name was determined on Linux by inspecting the actual header file, and verified by testing. If anyone runs into a system which uses a different macro name, please let us know. Thanks, --Beman