[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1890

[Steve Schveighoffer]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Tue, August 17, 2010 12:47:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [phobos] phobos commit, revision 1890
> 
> Try now. I've reverted back to the old 32-bit routines for Windows.
> 
> To  work with large files on win32 one must use _fseeki64 and _ftelli64. 
>However, if  I try to link such functions I get linker errors. Furthermore, 
>grepping the  windows/lib/ files for either symbol yields no results.
> 
> I've searched  around and it looks like those functions are defined in 
>libcmt.lib. Are we  allowed to distrubute that?

This will not work.  You cannot mix C runtime libraries.  In general, you cannot 
call any microsoft C runtime library functions.  However, system calls are still 
fine as the DMC runtime is built on top of those.

> Otherwise, Walter, can you define 64-bit seek and  tell routines in your stdio  
>implementation?

This is an option, another is to implement the appropriate fseek and ftell 
functions in D, and use those instead.  This is what I had to resort to for the 
HANDLE <==> file descriptor functions that I need for std.process.

-Steve