D2 and stream

[Steven Schveighoffer]

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 that it's a bit out of date?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 :)

-Steve