> > And they're hardcoding explicit bit lengths in the definition of the class > > library?
> How long do you think it will be until software starts using buffers > over 2 gigs in size. When I left my last job in May I had been using a system with 64-bit size_t for about a decade, so I would be utterly gobstruck if there's no software currently in existence that's reading and writing more than 2G at a shot.
