[MPlayer-dev-eng] mingw32 large file support

[Felix Buenemann]

Hi Joey Parrish,

on Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 at 16:42 you wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:26:53AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>> On Thursday, 26 January 2006 at 02:12, Felix Buenemann wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > I've discovered that on mingw32 off_t is always 4 bytes,
>> 
>> Even on 64bit Windows?
Dunno have no x64 sys here and not sure if mingw32 has been proted as
true x64 version otherwise it would behave exactly the same I guess...

>> 
>> > wereas only
>> > off64_t delivers 8 bytes, so large file support in MPlayer-mingw32 is
>> > totally broken (this mit also apply to some file handling functions,
>> > I'll till have to check that).
>> 
>> So... there are two versions of each function? One taking off_t and the
>> other off64_t as a parameter?
>> 
>> > Anyone has a good idea how to fix this without
>> > rewriting the entire code in MPlayer?
>> 
>> Hm. typedef off64_t off_t? ;)

> Attached is all64.h, a header to merge the different 64-bit file APIs on
> MinGW, Cygwin, and Linux.  Be sure to include it before any other file.

> Also attached is a test app to allow you to quickly test all64 and make
> sure it works as expected.  I've tested it on all three platforms.

> Is this helpful?

Yes, I'll take a look at it when I find a bit of time (I'm in the
middle of end-of-semester exams right now...)

> --Joey




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Best Regards,
  Felix