How to use gcc to compile on Solaris 8 for large file support

Phil Edwards phil@jaj.com
Mon Nov 4 09:36:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:18:49AM -0600, Harris, Thomas D. (KTR)~U wrote:
> All of the programs I compile with gcc have a 2G file limit.  What do I need to do for large file support?

man lfcompile
man lfcompile64

would be a good starting point.

There are known problems with C++ and largefiles on Solaris, but C shouldn't
give trouble.

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