Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> Thanks for the report and patch.
> You didn't say which version of od you patched.
It was version 2.0
> In any case, that problem is fixed in the latest test release
>
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.14.tar.gz
Thanks, I will download it.
cheers
>
> Gareth Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | I had to modify od to work with large files (>2.1GB) on SGI/IRIX 6.4,
> | using egcs-2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2 release).
> |
> | The problem is basically that 'long' is 4-bytes. You need 'long long'
> | for an 8-byte int. I do not think this is specific to SGI - it is
> | also true for egcs under Intel/Linux (though accademic since my kernel
> | does not support files >2.1 GB anyway) so it may be of more general
> | interest for people whose OSes do support big files.
> ...
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