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

I ran into this problem several years ago using gcc on Linux. The OS supported large files, and the C library (fopen, etc) supported it, but the C++ standard library didn't. I turned out that I had to recompile the C++ standard library using the correct compiler flags.