_FILE_OFFSET_BITS default

Posted Mar 15, 2014 22:41 UTC (Sat) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: _FILE_OFFSET_BITS default by khim
Parent article: Glibc feature test macros

Nice example, thanks for that. I wouldn't write it that way, but I can imagine that kind of code being written.

In this example the reading in of 2G of data will probably fail but I can see now that it's not the quick win I think it was.