Large Files (was: HELP)

[Herbert Fruchtl]

> > Can anyone help me out of this mess ? 
> > Furthermore, browsing the beowulf mailing list, I got accross some linux
> > limitations in writing huge temperary files. Mine can be 2 GB large. Is
> > that problem solved in kernels 2.4 ? 
> 
> The problem resided both in the kernel and standard libraries, so either
> updating glibc *or* updating the kernel won't solve the problem.
> 
> However, newer distributions such as RedHat 7.1 have both glibc and kernel
> updated so that this is no longer a problem.

If you use gcc, you need the flags 
  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE

Doesn't work for g77 (as of gcc 2.96). Does anybody know if this is solved 
in gcc 3.0, and if 3.0 is already stable and efficient enough to be used 
for serious applications?