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Re: [patch] Solved problems with file size >2GB



On Monday, 24 April 2006 at 10:17, Bruno Cesar Ribas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:04:35PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Hi Bruno,
> > 
> > * Bruno Cesar Ribas wrote on Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:46:31PM CEST:
> > > 
> > > Even if we have a limited audience for this bug, we have a bug and people
> > > suffering from this bug. =)
> > > And if we have a correction why not apply?
> > 
> > Your patch includes inttypes.h unconditionally, which I could imagine
> > not to be portable to all system mutt aims to support.  Mutt could maybe
> > make use of Gnulib's inttypes module.  But even that won't guarantee you
> > all the stuff that this patch needs.  Anyway this patch needs more work
> > (sorry for not having the time to delve any deeper into this).
> 
> Okay!! I'll take inttypes.h out and make it more portable =) no problem, i
> thought that using it would be better, but not all systems have it you are
> right.
> About more work neeeded, what do  do you mean [without deeper information]?
> I think i'll make a pattern for off_t types in the code and then i'll send
> again =)

Mutt already defines LOFF_T and OFF_T_FMT macros for several
operations on large files. Could you not use them for display as well?