Question

I am on Windows 7, 64bit and NTFS.
I am building a DLL that must be 32 bit. I have a very simple routine that I’d like to implement in C++. I’m reading a large file using:

unsigned long p;
ifstream source(file);
streampos pp(p);
source.seekg(pp);

For files over 4GB I tried using unsigned long long but it’s not working.
What am I doing wrong? I’m using GNU GCC, would it be of any use trying MSVC Express 2008/2010?

Update:

There seems that something is wrong with my GCC. Right now I’m testing your proposals using MSVC and it seems that is working. MSVC uses an _int64 to represent streampos/streamoff objects, I will check later with GCC.

Answer 1

You may have to use a number of relative seeks instead, i.e. use the two-argument overload of seekg.

// Start with seeking from the beginning
source.seekg(some_pos, std::ios::beg);

// Then seek some more from that position
source.seekg(some_offset, std::ios::cur);