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Subject: Re: Ada exception block does NOT work?
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"Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message 
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> It's because they used "signed int" for all file operations. Personally I
> consider that damm stupid - after all: have you ever seen a file with a
> negative size?
>
> Martin

There is some utility to a negative file offset, for example fseek. The real 
mistake was not using a typedef for the file sizes and file offsets.

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