20 Nov
2007
20 Nov
'07
1:36 a.m.
On Monday 19 November 2007 17:59, Fred Cisin wrote:
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 :-)
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!
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