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From: Christopher Cambly (ccambly_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-12 02:59:36
Jonathan Turnkanis_at_[hidden] wrote on 09/01/2008 06:15:49 PM:
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> My goal is to make the test pass whenever possible, regardless of the
> compiler flags, since those should be determined by the end user and not
> the library author. When fpos_t is 4 bytes, there's nothing I can do to
> make the test pass. I'm encouraged that it passes with address-model=64,
> but it concerns me that it doesn't work with -qlonglong -D_LARGE_FILES,
> when all the relevant types have size 8.
>
> I think the problem might be that the compiler is picking up the wrong
> branch of code in fpos_t_to_offset (boost/iostreams/positioning.hpp:80).
> I have checked in a possible fix; would you mind testing it with the
> three sets of compiler flags and reporting the results?
Here are the results from the 3 variant runs.
1) Test case fails when fpos_t is 4 bytes as you expected.
2) Test case now passes with -qlonglong -D_LARGE_FILES
3) Test case passes with address-model=64
Assuming I did get the right file, which seems likely since the test passes
with large file support.
> --
>
> While we're on the subject of compiler flags for large file support,
> there's another part of the Iostreams library that I have attempted to
> configure for IBM. I've read the documentation, but it would be great to
> have input from an expert. In the header
> boost/iostreams/detail/config/rtl.hpp, I attempt to determine whether to
> use plain POSIX file descriptor functions or the xxx64 versions provided
> by some systems.
>
> The goal is to use the plain versions whenever they support 64-bit file
> offsets, and to switch to the xxx64 variants if they are available and
> the only way to access large files.
>
> <snip>
>
> Could you let me know whether this is correct, at least as far as AIX is
> concerned? One thing I notice right away is that the IBM docs I've read
> describe the flag _LARGE_FILE, while above you used _LARGE_FILES, with a
> trailing 'S'. I'm guessing the docs are wrong here. (The manual I used
> was "Developing and Porting C and C++ Applications on AIX", by Matsubara
> et al.)
I am not familiar with that particular document, typically I just use the
AIX documentation. I can tell you that _LARGE_FILE is incorrect, it is
_LARGE_FILES with the S. This link may be helpful to you:
http://tinyurl.com/ys85ss If you search for "large files" there is a
document called "Writing Programs That Access Large Files" that seems to
answer some of your questions, but I will take a closer look at that code
next week.
Chris Cambly
XL C/C++ Compiler Development