At 23:05 2013-11-06, AndyHC <[email protected]> wrote:
What am I missing here?
On a 32 bit operating system the largest signed int is ~ 2Gb (2^31)
and the largest unsigned int is ~ 4Gb (2^32). These are therefore
the largest addresses/ pointers/ offsets/ what-have-you's available
which limits in-
^
Insert "for memory access". This limit does not apply to
filesystem pointers of positions in files.
memory processing to 2Gb/ 4Gb - I can't see how there could be any way around
this. You could probably use low level disk access to do on-disk
manipulation (which may be what the available utilities do).
Is the entire file required in memory? A text file could be
processed sequentially a line or a buffer at a time.
[snip]
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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