Ranges longer than size_t.max

[SomeDude]

On Saturday, 29 December 2012 at 06:12:52 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
> 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...

AFAIK, no 32-bit OS supports files larger than 4Gb anyway.