Reading files larger than 4GB using c++ stl

Question

A few weeks back I was using std::ifstream to read in some files and it was failing immediately on open because the file was larger than 4GB. At the time I couldnt find a de

Answer 1

Apparently it depends on how off_t is implemented by the library.

#include 
__int64_t temp=std::numeric_limits::max();

gives you what the current max is.

STLport supports larger files.