------- Comment #9 from bugzilla-gcc at thewrittenword dot com 2007-12-21 03:59 ------- (In reply to comment #8) > The issue is whether to default G++ to _LARGE_FILES, as is done for Fortran, > and perform all libstdc++ I/O as 64-bit operations, which will affect > performance. Not everyone may want or need large I/O. There is no way to > give > users control over this without imposing it so G++, G++ headers, and libstdc++ > all are self-consistent. The other alternative is another multilib, but there > alredy are too many variants.
Why is this? -D_LARGE_FILES simply enables LFS. xlC works with and without -D_LARGE_FILES. Shouldn't G++ work as effectively as xlC? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20366
