D2 and stream

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:11:19 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:01:33 -0400, Lars T. Kyllingstad
> <public at kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:11:54 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:35:21 -0400, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> == Quote from Mafi (mafi at example.org)'s article
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> what are the directions of D2's streams. I heared std.stream is
>>>>> going to get deprecated in D2. I think it's good as long as
>>>>> BufferedFile.readLine() returns char[] instead of string. Is D2
>>>>> going to get a Java-like stream model? What's wrong with the old one
>>>>> except that it's a bit out of date?
>>>>> Mafi
>>>>
>>>> Two things off the top of my head:
>>>>
>>>> 1.  std.stream doesn't correctly support files > 2GB on 32-bit Linux,
>>>> and possibly
>>>> on other OS's as well.
>>>
>>> Doesn't that have to do with using C's FILE * interface?
>>
>> FILE* isn't used anywhere in std.stream.  You're either thinking of
>> std.stdio.File or std.cstream.CFile.
> 
> Ah, ok.  But does that mean that the problem isn't going away by
> deprecating std.stream?  I thought FILE * doesn't support large files.
> 
> If that's the case, then assertion 1 from David is incorrect, it's not a
> good reason to get rid of std.stream.
> 
> If that's not the case, then I'm wrong :)


A bit of googling shows you are right.  We really should get rid of the 
FILE* dependency...

-Lars