Re: iostream and files larger than 4GB
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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