[Python-Dev] Expanding max chunk size to 4GB.

Erik de Castro Lopo erikd at mega-nerd.com
Wed Jul 6 22:44:32 CEST 2005


Mark Rages wrote:

> This site says it's a "long": http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/wave.htm
> This site says it's a "ulong": http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/aboutiff.htm

Wonderful isn't it :-).

> Unsigned makes more sense, considering it's a byte count and would
> never be negative.
> 
> I've CC'd Erik de Castro Lopo, whose word is more definitive than
> random websites.

libsndfile treats the chunk lengths as unsigned int.

Erik
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