tell producing long int
Andrew Kuchling
akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Fri Sep 8 16:01:32 EDT 2000
drobinow at my-deja.com writes:
> HAVE_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT is determined automatically by configure
> (Building with gcc on Irix also gives 6L)
Returning a long integer causes problems if you do something like:
pos1 = f.tell()
....
pos2 = f.tell()
padding = (pos2-pos1) * ' '
Some patches to 1.6/2.0 were added to allow long integers in places
where integers were previously required, so that something like 6L*'a'
will actually work.
--amk
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