iostream largefile support - rant!!

[tecknophreak]

When will C++ iostream have largefile support like C? When you start running on a 64-bit cpu?

I'd like to keep my source mostly c++, but then I have to use open, read and write from C for large files. It's really inconsistent! ARRRGGG!!!

[bwkaz]

You could always create a patch for libstdc++ to enable it... sure, it'd be against the C++ standards, but if it's optional, it might catch on with the C++ standards people...

Of course, it may not. It's not extremely cross-platform (at least, not to non-Unix machines...), but maybe.