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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-11-29 17:41:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-11-29 17:41:05 +0000 |
| commit | 1c36ee7a78c5f1d8e1b4947b32e5f534fb5acc27 (patch) | |
| tree | b45ba14fb244df6a92bd68f27e1990256cf21d30 /Doc/library/posix.rst | |
| parent | 9df4d14454b5843e51b3cadf6bff02a77791bfc9 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-1c36ee7a78c5f1d8e1b4947b32e5f534fb5acc27.tar.gz | |
Remove further mentions of long integers.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/posix.rst b/Doc/library/posix.rst index 2074e4503d..a845e353e9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/posix.rst +++ b/Doc/library/posix.rst @@ -51,8 +51,7 @@ sometimes referred to as :dfn:`large files`. Large file support is enabled in Python when the size of an :ctype:`off_t` is larger than a :ctype:`long` and the :ctype:`long long` type is available and is -at least as large as an :ctype:`off_t`. Python longs are then used to represent -file sizes, offsets and other values that can exceed the range of a Python int. +at least as large as an :ctype:`off_t`. It may be necessary to configure and compile Python with certain compiler flags to enable this mode. For example, it is enabled by default with recent versions of Irix, but with Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 you need to do something like:: |