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On 2021-05-28 at 04:38, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 5/27/2021 8:36 PM, Öö Tiib wrote:
>> On Friday, 28 May 2021 at 02:58:18 UTC+3, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>> In fact C doesn't define a type for representing file sizes.
>>> (It might be nice if it did.)
>>
>> Or may be it might be nice if it did take it back from C++ where
>> std::filesystem::file_size() is of type std::uintmax_t.
>> Also standard should end the woo allowing implementations to
>> have integers that are not integers. It is awful.
> 
> For some reason, Microsoft is using __int64.  Not my favorite variable 
> type.

The reason being that they invented this type at a time when there was 
no long long.

>  Even "long long" is better (and the same) imho.

Yes, *now* it is.  :-)

>  __int64 _ftelli64 (FILE *stream);
> 
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/ftell-ftelli64?view=msvc-160 
> 
> 
> Apparently no one else is using _ftelli64.  This sucks.
>     https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=65070
> 
> Lynn
> 
> 
>