Thread: Problems openning huge files

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    Problems openning huge files

    Dear friends,

    I have a huge problem. I must open files greater than 2Gb in a C program, but I could not do this with the fopen() or ifstream().

    How can I open and read big files like that?

    Please, could someone help me?


    Thanks in advance.


    Regards,

    Antonio.

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    Re: Problems openning huge files

    Originally posted by acoelho74
    Dear friends,

    I have a huge problem. I must open files greater than 2Gb in a C program, but I could not do this with the fopen() or ifstream().

    How can I open and read big files like that?
    I'll speculate, since you provide no insight as to what you're using. Get a new OS, BIOS, and compiler.

    Quzah.
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    A little more details...

    I'm developing a system that must open and process text files with more than 2Gb of data.

    I tried to open this files with the fopen() and ifstream() functions, but it didn't work. As it seems, the fopen() function has a limit of 2Gb.

    I' developing this in a HP-UX system, with enoght memory to do that.

    I think that this functions doesn't support this size of files.


    Thanks.

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    Hmm, you receive any error message, what errno says?
    with glibc, I think you have to use -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 or *64.
    Last edited by Vber; 02-11-2003 at 05:15 PM.

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    Have you look at open()
    When all else fails, read the instructions.
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