[SoX-devel] [Patch] lsx_filelength, size_t and files larger than 4GiB

[Thor A. <th...@bi...>]

Hi,

Compiling sox on 32 bit architectures results, in my experience, in 
4 byte size_t types, and as lsx_filelength() returns size_t, it
overflows for files larger than 4GiB. I've written a patch which changes
this to off_t as per [1]. It seemed like the right thing at the time,
but now I'm not so sure, there might be some portability issues etc.,
maybe uint64_t would be better?

Anyway here is what I've got so far, comments welcome.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/File-Position-Primitive.html

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best regards
Thor Andreassen