Maximum file size for open()

[sundar261@gmail.com]

Hi,

I am using ifstream open() to open an greater than 5GB file (more 100
million record) and open() fails to open the file. But I am able to
open smaller sized files (around 1GB) with the same program

What is maximum file size that I can open. Is it dependent on number
of records or file size in bytes?

What is the best way to open big files?? Do we have any compiler
specific options that need to be set?

I am using aCC compiler on HPUX machine.

-Sundar

[Alf P. Steinbach]

Re: Maximum file size for open()

* sundar261@gmail .com:

>
I am using ifstream open() to open an greater than 5GB file (more 100
million record) and open() fails to open the file. But I am able to
open smaller sized files (around 1GB) with the same program
>
What is maximum file size that I can open. Is it dependent on number
of records or file size in bytes?
>
What is the best way to open big files?? Do we have any compiler
specific options that need to be set?
>
I am using aCC compiler on HPUX machine.

I can't give you hard facts without checking (which is work), but it
seems that you're using an implementation with a 32 bit file size / seek
position. Perhaps some options can be tweaked to support larger files?
I'd check the compiler or standard library implementation' s documentation.

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