[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.2 available for testing

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:30:39AM -0700, Mark Adler wrote:
> On Sep 6, 2006, at 4:44 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > By the way, I sent a patch which took a stab at implementing this  
> > to the
> > list a while back.

> I found what I think you're referring to, from May 2004.

Yes, that's it.  

>                                                           That patch  
> redefines *all* of the gzio functions to have a "64" version.  Is  
> that necessary?  I thought that only gzseek() and gztell() need "64"  
> versions.

If I remember correctly the main issue that concerned me was the
requirement that applications explicitly request 64 bit support when
opening files in order to avoid mishaps with a 32 bit off_t overflowing
on a large file: see section 2.2.1.9 of [1] for explicit discussion of
this requirement as it applies to fopen().  I think I found it easier to
implement the patch in the way I did (which also had the advantage of
being relatively non-invasive) than convince myself that stdio would do
something constructive with large files portably.

[1] http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lfs20mar.html

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