[Boost-users] Re: Re: boost::filesystem problems

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-18 10:57:54

"Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:6.1.2.0.2.20040817224639.057dc6f0_at_mail.rudbek.com...
> At Tuesday 2004-08-17 15:14, you wrote:
>
> >"Delfin Rojas" <drojas_at_[hidden]> wrote in message

> > > As far as file size I think you can get it from the stream.
> >
> >Yes, but std::streamoff is not guaranteed to be large enough to
hold
> >the size of really huge files.
>
> really? how'd the committee manage to mess that one up? or are  you
saying
> some implementations are deficient in their specification of
std::streamoff?

It's typical for streamoff to be an alias for a 32-bit long. Currently
there's no type the committee could have specified which would cover
the full range of file sizes commonly supported by OS's.

Jonathan