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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2008-08-26 12:57:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2008-08-26 12:57:29 +0000 |
| commit | 132cd3aa2c91e32b08e31d6be38534933245bd68 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e439dbab7efb2be69d13e9a0968b47b8bc227f2 /lib/README.curl_off_t | |
| parent | fef60d9d4155c75809b278968cff345cc47be512 (diff) | |
spell out some benefits of this new approach of doing curl_off_t
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/README.curl_off_t | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/README.curl_off_t b/lib/README.curl_off_t index b60179da0..8e440a26c 100644 --- a/lib/README.curl_off_t +++ b/lib/README.curl_off_t @@ -27,6 +27,19 @@ In both these cases, the curl_off_t type will now (after the transition) be 64bit where it previously were 32bit. This will cause a binary incompatibility that you MAY need to deal with. +Benefits +-------- + +This new way has several benefits: + +o Platforms without LFS support can still use libcurl to do >32 bit file + transfers and range operations etc as long as they have >32 bit datatypes + supported. + +o Applications will no longer easily build with the curl_off_t size + mismatched, which has been a very frequent (and annoying) problem with + libcurl <= 7.18.2 + Historicly ---------- |