[flac-dev] 2GB limit patch

[Cristian Adam]

On 3/4/2013 11:26 PM, Martijn van Beurden wrote:
> On 04-03-13 23:19, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>> Link please?
> http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=99757
>
>> Err, thats a link to a post talking about flac's WAV reader being limited
>> to 4Gig files. Problem is, *all* WAV files greater than 4Gig are mal-formed.
>> Due to limitations in the way WAV files are specified, no valid WAV file
>> can ever be over 4Gig.
>>
>> Also, the link in that post contains a flac windows binary which is not
>> of much use.
> It seems Case hasn't released any source, but the other posts in the 
> thread state what changes have been made to get to this.
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This is an older issue reported in 2007:
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/2007-September/002423.html

The fix would be to use _ftelli64 instead of ftell with Visual Studio.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0ys3hc0b%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

Cheers,
Cristian.