[Sbcl-help] Re: Problems with large files on sbcl/linux-x86

[Rex D. <rd...@ma...>]

Hannah Schroeter wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:12:20AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>>Gisle Sælensminde wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I tried the 32-bit version of sbcl on an opteron-based linux machine,
>>>but got a problem with big files. On the x86_64 version I can open
>>>big files, but on the x86-version, I get an exception telling me that
>>>the file don't exists. Is this just a bug, or is there a real problem
>>>dealing with such files? (Well at least the error message could
>>>be better, since that is plain wrong. The file does exist).
>>>The problem is with all files >2GB. On the x86_64 version
>>>there is no problems.
> 
> 
>>AFAIK, sbcl doesn't support >2GB files on <64bit systems.
> 
> 
> Not even on systems that define off_t reasonably without magic compiler
> flags? (I.e. *BSD)

Yes.  As I said in my post:
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At one time, I tried building it with lfs (large file support) by 
defining the appropriate compiler options (-D_LARGEFILE...), but it 
didn't work (all I/O then failed to work).  Didn't look much further 
than that.
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-- Rex