Re: quad_t and portability

[Don Lewis]

On Aug 6,  3:29pm, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
} Subject: quad_t and portability
} 
} Hi folks,
} 
} I want to patch wc(1) so that it uses quad_t instead of u_long. This is
} necessary if wc(1) is to produce sensible results for files containing
} more than 4GB of data.

Why not off_t, which should be portable and scale properly with the
maximum system file size.  Then the only problem is figuring a portable
means of printing the result ...


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