Re: [Boost-users] [iostreams?] Working with files larger than

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [iostreams?] Working with files larger than
From: Ioannis Mademlis (ioannis.mademlis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-18 18:05:17

Raindog wrote:
> To my surprise, the implementation of the STL shipped with VC9 does not
> support files larger than 4GB. I was pretty surprised and couldn't find
> anything on the web to the contrary. So I was wondering if boost has any
> hidden libraries that might assist in solving my problem.
>
> Thanks.

If you are interested in manipulating really big files maybe you will find
the hdf5 library handy.
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
For a short introduction
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/TechNotes/BigDataSmMach.html

Cheers
Ioannis