runtime patch?

[Farkas Levente]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:39:14PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
>> hi,
>> i'm just look into our old mingw packages and found this patch. the
>> strange thing is that it's may be useful. unfortunately i don't have
>> time in this week, but i'll look into this next week (since after the
>> first look it may be useful anyway) so i just send it here for other can
>> look at it.
> 
> Do you know what software uses / needs this one?
> 
> If there's a plan for getting it upstream (ie. it's been submitted and
> looks like it will be accepted) then we can add it to the runtime
> package now.  Otherwise we could only really add it if we absolutely
> needed it to build something, and even then we'd have to be thinking
> about getting it upstream.

this patch is good if you would like to use large files (ie. larger
2-4GB). i don't know about it, but i'll ask them.

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"