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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: Ada exception block does NOT work?
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:51:49 +0200
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Frank J. Lhota wrote:

> "Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
> news:1227518.U5hWOOGjT8@linux1.krischik.com...
>> 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.

I know - It was also a mistake to make a "do it all" fseek - There should
have been a fabsseek and frelseek - then there wouldn't have been a problem
with using unsigned long for file positions. But that's all water under the
bridge now.

> The 
> real mistake was not using a typedef for the file sizes and file offsets.

Well they have it now with fgetpos and fsetpos.

Martin
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