Re: [Boost-users] Using ofstream with xml_oarchive to write a file larger than 2GB

From: Thomas D\'Silva (twdsilva_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-04 12:05:31

Robert Ramey <ramey <at> rrsd.com> writes:

> 
> Do you know for a fact that your ostream implemenation can handle such
> a large file?  xml_oarchive depends upon ostream for all its output.  You'll
> need to investigate this more deeply to get an answer.
> 
> Robert Ramey
> 

The ifstream and ofstream implementation for gcc version 3.2.2 cannot handle
files larger than 2GB, but it seems it is possible to bind a stream to a FILE*
which enables reading and writing to files larger than 2GB.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~khan/alta/lfs.html

Thanks
Thomas