[GRASS-user] problems with r.cost

[William Kyngesburye]

On May 23, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:

> William Kyngesburye wrote:
>
>> The need for FILE_OFFSET_BITS and its many variations should be
>> discovered by configure, and whatever is needed by a platform is set
>> in config.h, so this setting here is redundant and possibly
>> meaningless on some platforms.
>
> The settings in config.h are conditionalised upon USE_LARGEFILES,
> which is never defined automatically.
>
> If you want LFS, you have to add the relevant flags in the
> corresponding Makefile. But first you need to ensure that the code is
> actually safe for LFS (i.e. it doesn't use ANSI stdio functions or
> store offsets in variables smaller than an off_t) if you don't want
> corrupted files.
>
>> (OSX doesn't need any of the macros set, and supports large files by
>> default.)
>
> Unfortunately, much of GRASS doesn't support LFS (especially, but not
> exclusively, on platforms where sizeof(long) < sizeof(off_t)), so
> enabling it globally is dangerous. That's why you normally have to
> specifically enable it with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS etc.
>
> On platforms with a 64-bit "long", you only have to worry about "bad"
> code (storing or computing offsets using "int"); even so, GRASS isn't
> entirely free from bad code.
>
Hm, maybe I've been lucky.  I used to manually add  
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to my CFLAGS, but stopped doing that a while  
back.  I've been working with >4GB rasters successfully, but I  
haven't used the more specialized commands like r.cost.  I haven't  
used --enable-largefile thinking it was enabled if the platform  
supported it.  hmmm.

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