Re: iostream and files larger than 4GB

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:13:09 -0400
Message-ID:
<g62qkm$2e5$1@news.datemas.de>
Robert Kochem wrote:

Victor Bazarov wrote:

If you get a "possible loss of data" warning when feeding seekg() with an
64 bit integer - what would you expect?

I expect not to use seekg then. Or switch to a better implementation of
the library.


That is easy to say - but what else to use?


A different implementation. Check out 'STLport', Dinkumware...

It may work for files, but can I work with them on memory streams?

I don't know what those are, sorry.


May be that was not the correct name in the C++ realm: I need an
abstraction of the underlaying data source. My code have to work on files
as well as on memory buffers and I call a stream using a memory buffer as
source a memory stream.


So, are you going to write some kind of wrappers for C++ streams and
your own buffers, or are you going to provide your own streambuf
implementations that you're going to plug into C++ streams?

V
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