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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 ---------- |