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Hi, I have a 13GB file. fopen() is failing on me. The resulting perror
message is: "Value too large to be stored in data type". Can someone
sugggest a solution? Do I need to use a new file library?

I am on an AIX, 32-bit PPC architecture, in case that matters.

Digital Puer wrote:
> Hi, I have a 13GB file. fopen() is failing on me. The resulting perror
> message is: "Value too large to be stored in data type". Can someone
> sugggest a solution? Do I need to use a new file library?
>
> I am on an AIX, 32-bit PPC architecture, in case that matters.
>
I'm unfamiliar with the platform, but if fopen() is already failing
before you even perform an operation on the file, your problem is with
the C library implementation.

Try a platform or library-specific newsgroup/forum/wiki/message
board/Post-It(tm) exchange network. comp.unix.aix looks promising.

S.

Skarmander wrote:
> Digital Puer wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have a 13GB file. fopen() is failing on me. The resulting perror
>> message is: "Value too large to be stored in data type". Can someone
>> sugggest a solution? Do I need to use a new file library?
>>
>> I am on an AIX, 32-bit PPC architecture, in case that matters.
>>
> I'm unfamiliar with the platform, but if fopen() is already failing
> before you even perform an operation on the file, your problem is with
> the C library implementation.
>
> Try a platform or library-specific newsgroup/forum/wiki/message
> board/Post-It(tm) exchange network. comp.unix.aix looks promising.
>
Oh, and try "man fopen64".

S.

"Digital Puer" <> writes:
> Hi, I have a 13GB file. fopen() is failing on me. The resulting perror
> message is: "Value too large to be stored in data type". Can someone
> sugggest a solution? Do I need to use a new file library?
>
> I am on an AIX, 32-bit PPC architecture, in case that matters.

This is system-specific, so we can't really give a definitive answer
here.

<OFF_TOPIC>
I don't know whether the "-q64" option to IBM's compiler will help.
</OFF_TOPIC>

Try comp.unix.aix.

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On 23 Nov 2005 18:27:02 -0800, in comp.lang.c , "Digital Puer"
<> wrote:

>Hi, I have a 13GB file. fopen() is failing on me. The resulting perror
>message is: "Value too large to be stored in data type". Can someone
>sugggest a solution?

Upgrade to Solaris....

>Do I need to use a new file library?

Its possible you might find a different standard library could handle
larger files. the likely problem is that the filesize is stored in a
long, which on a 32-bit implementation is probably 32 bits ie max of
4GB.

The short answer is that this is very operating system specific, and
you'll need to ask in a group specialising in your OS.


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Mark McIntyre
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CLC readme: <http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/clc.welcome.txt>

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Skarmander wrote:
> >
> Oh, and try "man fopen64".
>
> S.


This works. Thanks!