On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:59:31 +0000, Bill Purvis wrote:
On 09/11/16 19:47, Johannes Kroll wrote:
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:08:39 +0100 (CET)
"J. C." <julien(a)mail.upb.de> wrote:
Nov 9 2016, Markus Seeber has written:
...
Are you perhaps on a 32bit OS?
Yes, I
am, but would that really effect the systems facility to
read and interpret 64bit integers in a file?
No, but it could be a
bug/misfeature in the software you are using
for recording. It could be related to an integer overflow when using
a 32-bit signed integer to keep track of file size or something
similar. In C, an 'int' would compile to a 32-bit or 64-bit variable
according to the word size of the target machine. As other possible
causes don't seem to apply, this seems likely.
Sorry, that's not true. In
earlier times, before things like standards
were invented and 32 bits seemed a lot, int=16 bits, long=32bits. When
they got round to standardising C, int was defined as either 16 or 32
bits, depending on the architecture. Short=16 bits, long=32bits. Then
64 bits came in, and 16-bit machine were virtually forgotten. int was
then only vaguely defined but in practice it is always 32 bits (unless
you have a very old compiler for
a 16-bit machine). It does NOT extend to 64 bits, with the possible
exception
of some obscure machines that only support 64 bits (CDC?). Long is
either 32 or 64 bit, depending on applicable architecture.
The only reliable way is to use the extended types: int_16, int_32,
int_64 which are now available (for those that like typing longer
names.... ;-))
Perhaps useful information for those who program, but irrelevant for
this thread, since WAV files > 2GiB don't require 64bit at all.
libsndfile on Arch, this is what the OP does use, is configured with
"--prefix=/usr --disable-sqlite" and it's the latest official upstream
release without patches and no changes excepted of
sed -i 's|#!/usr/bin/python|#!/usr/bin/python2|' src/binheader_writef_check.py
\
src/create_symbols_file.py programs/test-sndfile-metadata-set.py
sed -i 's|python|&2|' src/Makefile.am
I hope we agree on the following:
1. wav, even 32bit is not limited to 2GiB
2. ext3, with ulimit file size unlimited on a partition where > 100GiB
are free, allows to write files >2GiB
Regards,
Ralf