20 Nov
2007
20 Nov
'07
1:54 a.m.
> The 2GB limit was due to MICROS~1 using a signed,
rather than unsigned,
> long integer. 'Course that did make it possible to have a file with
> -2147483648 bytes :-)
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Having bumped into that limit at times, it made next
to zero sense to me that
some programmer couldn't take the trouble to type "unsigned" in front
of "int" for that particular bit of code...
Grr!
1) "That number (2147483647) is soo big that nobody would ever need more
than that!"
2) Some of the earlier compilers didn't have an "unsigned long int"
3) What happens if you copy a -2G file to an otherwise almost full disk?