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Memory-mapping of bigarrays with offsets missing #4024

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vicuna opened this issue May 16, 2006 · 3 comments
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Memory-mapping of bigarrays with offsets missing #4024

vicuna opened this issue May 16, 2006 · 3 comments
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vicuna commented May 16, 2006

Original bug ID: 4024
Reporter: @mmottl
Assigned to: @xavierleroy
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2007-02-21T15:19:57Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Version: 3.09.2
Fixed in version: 3.10+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Child of: #3790
Monitored by: @mmottl

Bug description

It is currently impossible to memory-map file portions with a non-zero offset (64 bits would be required, too!) with the Bigarray module. This is quite unfortunate, because very large files that exceed the integer limits of OCaml on 32bit platforms are not fully accessible in a memory-mapped way then.

The current seek position of the file descriptor could eventually be consulted for that in the current code without changing the API. This would be a fairly trivial change.

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vicuna commented May 16, 2006

Comment author: @mmottl

The mmap64 system call would have to be used if 64bit offsets should be supported.

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vicuna commented May 19, 2006

Comment author: berke

I second this. However Array*.sub can be used for small files.

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vicuna commented Jun 10, 2006

Comment author: @xavierleroy

Tentative implementation in CVS trunk (Bigarray.*.map_subfile functions).
Windows implementation is untested and probably wrong.

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