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From: caussep@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe CAUSSE)
Subject: Re: _BSD_OFF_T_ type long long
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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 21:02:19 GMT
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Jim Drinkwater (jd@isd.net) wrote:
: Why is _BSD_OFF_T_ defined as type long long (see below)
: in <machine/ansi.h>? I am running FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP.
: #define _BSD_OFF_T_ long long /* file offset */
This has to be so because some data structures use 64bits integers,
notably in the file-system... This allows files bigger than 4Gb :-)
Under gcc, a "long long" is a 64-bits signed integer.
In C, try: printf("Size is %d\n", sizeof(long long));
: Thanks in advance.
: ---
: Jim Drinkwater
: jd@isd.net
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