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Re: File size limit

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at ?ahoo.?om> Jun 11, 2008
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Kat wrote:
> 
> But i thought Eu's switch from integer to floating point atoms caused a drop
> in the number of decimal digits at the same count as the integer type would
> go screwy. No? Seems you are saying no. Yes?

That should only be true for floating point atoms with more than 17 significant
figures.
 
> So all we need is the wrapping of the 64bit file calls in winxp/vista/nix api?
> 
> Kat

Yes, that and a macro to cast from double to 64-bit integer. This should be in
4.0.

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j.