From: "Norman H. Cohen" <ncohen@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: How to hide instantiation of Direct_IO?
Date: 1997/02/27
Date: 1997-02-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3315A1BF.3C1D@watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.856921347@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
> Norman said
>
> <<A 64-bit Count type is quite plausible: In early versions of AIX, one
> of the first needs that arose for 64-bit integers was for file offsets.>>
>
> Sure, but this is for offsets into arbitrary files. I think you are being
> quite unrealistic to assume that anyone would decide that a text file
> might have more than 2 billion lines of text, or a single line longer
> than 2 billion characters.
Who said anything about text files? The topic of this discussion is
direct I/O, and the type Count provided by instances of Ada.Direct_IO.
Scientific and multimedia applications with data files of potentially
more than 2 billion items are commonplace.
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Norman H. Cohen
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-11 0:00 How to hide instantiation of Direct_IO? Dale Stanbrough
1997-02-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1997-03-01 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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