Working with files over 2GB in D2

[Jeremie Pelletier]

dsimcha wrote:
> Does anyone know how to work with huge (2GB+) files in D2?  std.stream has
> overflow bugs (I haven't isolated them yet) and can't return their size
> correctly, std.stdio.File throws a ConvOverflowError in seek() because fseek()
> apparently takes an int when it should take a long, and std.file only supports
> reading the whole file, which I can't do in 2GB address space.
> 
> It appears none of the file I/O on Phobos has been tested on huge files (until
> now).

What platform are you using? You should report your issue on bugzilla.

I had similar issues on windows when using stdio's fseek and ftell, I 
had no problems using GetFilePointerEx, you could try that while it is 
fixed.

Jeremie