[Xapian-devel] xapian + win XP + 2GB

[Charlie Hull]

Charlie Hull wrote:
> Just to add, I've been looking at this, and my first idea was to #define 
> the following:
> 
> #define lseek _lseeki64
> #define off_t __int64
> 
> The relevant source is btree.cc (for Quartz) and flint_table.cc (for 
> Flint), in both cases functions called read_block and write_block. These 
> appear to be the only places where lseek and off_t is used (apart from 
> in xapian-compact which isn't relevant for this test).
> 
> It would take me a while to set up a 2GB index unfortunately, so I can't 
> currently reproduce Grzegorz's results. One thing that might be 
> instructive is knowing whether anyone has used index files this big 
> using a Mingw version of Xapian...
> 
Looks like the fix worked once it was properly applied. Once Grzegorz 
has confirmed it works for all his indices I'll post a patch.

Merry Christmas to all on the list!

Cheers

Charlie
Lemur