From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ee1a8b8db84c88f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada exception block does NOT work? Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:02:32 +0200 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <1227518.U5hWOOGjT8@linux1.krischik.com> References: <4301ab29$0$6989$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> <1639727.IzdcfkcRx7@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-72-114-216.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1124640916 23559 84.72.114.216 (21 Aug 2005 16:15:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:15:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.9.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4237 Date: 2005-08-21T18:02:32+02:00 List-Id: Frank J. Lhota wrote: > Martin Krischik wrote: >> Well, the very first C did not have "unsigned int" there was just int. >> That's why unix has a 2GB limit on files and not a 4 GB limit. (There is >> a new set of file IO which can deal with larger files). > > The standard of the Vanilla, K&R C language "The C Programming Language" > first edition, does include unsigned integer types. The old Unix file > size limit is probably due to other reasons. 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 -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com