[M3devel] what to do about file sizes being 32bits?

hendrik at topoi.pooq.com hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Thu Jan 7 15:00:08 CET 2010


On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:52:10PM +0100, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:
> 
> >In any case, is the proper type for file offsets [0..7fffffffffffffff]
> >or [0..ffffffffffffffff]?  I suspect the latter.  It might take some
> >effort to make that legal in Modula 3.
> 
> Well, I don't think that should be any practical problem right now,
> shouldn't it?

Not just yet.  But it will be, and I suspect Modula 3 will still be 
around then.

-- hendrik



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