> > 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.
I'm similarly both much amused and grief-stricken by the talk of
64-bit being something new and amazingly wonderful and just around the
corner. For Intel marketdroids, maybe so.
--
There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is
'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
