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Re: FTP large file support patch

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:40:57 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> #ifdef LONG_LONG_OFF_T // need some kind of configure test for this
> #define OFF_T_FMT "lld"
> #else
> #define OFF_T_FMT "d"
> #endif
>
> off_t sz=foo();
> printf("Size is %" OFF_T_FMT, sz);

Since we in fact have our own printf() code, we could make 'lld' always output
off_t, even on platforms where off_t is only 4 bytes... :-)

> > Perhaps I misunderstood your reasoning for having a new progress function,
> > or maybe I misread; if so, please let me know, and I can address that. :)
>
> I can see the value of a curl API that doesn't depend on floating point at
> all in some small systems that lack hardware floating point support.

Yeps, I've always considered those doubles in that function as a mistake. Now
I feel we have a good excuse to correct it!

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Received on 2003-12-12