[MPlayer-dev-eng] mingw32 large file support

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

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?

> 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? ;)

R.

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