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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,904f3551267aacb0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Norman H. Cohen" Subject: Re: How to hide instantiation of Direct_IO? Date: 1997/02/27 Message-ID: <3315A1BF.3C1D@watson.ibm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 221892241 References: <5dqt5n$j3s$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <330CCC71.DFD@watson.ibm.com> <331316F1.7F2C@watson.ibm.com> Organization: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Reply-To: ncohen@watson.ibm.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-02-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > Norman said > > < 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. -- Norman H. Cohen mailto:ncohen@watson.ibm.com http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/ncohen