Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:17:32 -0700 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quad_t and portability Message-ID: <199908070017.RAA29154@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> "quad_t and portability" (Aug 6, 3:29pm)
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On Aug 6, 3:29pm, Sheldon Hearn wrote: } Subject: quad_t and portability } } Hi folks, } } I want to patch wc(1) so that it uses quad_t instead of u_long. This is } necessary if wc(1) is to produce sensible results for files containing } more than 4GB of data. Why not off_t, which should be portable and scale properly with the maximum system file size. Then the only problem is figuring a portable means of printing the result ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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