Ranges longer than size_t.max

[Mehrdad]

On Saturday, 29 December 2012 at 02:14:22 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> I'd be very strongly inclined to go with #4 and just say that 
> anyone who actually cares about numbers that large should use 
> 64-bit.



Uhm, 64-bit?

What about large files (> 4 GiB) on 32-bit systems?

(Say, if a range wants to provide random access to the bytes of 
an 8 GiB file?)

And what about large bit vectors? A 600 MiB bit vector needs > 
2^32 bits for length...