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Commit 132cd3aa authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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spell out some benefits of this new approach of doing curl_off_t

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......@@ -27,6 +27,19 @@ In both these cases, the curl_off_t type will now (after the transition) be
64bit where it previously were 32bit. This will cause a binary incompatibility
that you MAY need to deal with.
Benefits
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This new way has several benefits:
o Platforms without LFS support can still use libcurl to do >32 bit file
transfers and range operations etc as long as they have >32 bit datatypes
supported.
o Applications will no longer easily build with the curl_off_t size
mismatched, which has been a very frequent (and annoying) problem with
libcurl <= 7.18.2
Historicly
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