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diff --git a/Doc/library/posix.rst b/Doc/library/posix.rst index 2105af9..ad417a1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/posix.rst +++ b/Doc/library/posix.rst @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Large File Support .. sectionauthor:: Steve Clift <clift@mail.anacapa.net> -Several operating systems (including AIX, HP-UX, Irix and Solaris) provide +Several operating systems (including AIX, HP-UX and Solaris) provide support for files that are larger than 2 GiB from a C programming model where :c:type:`int` and :c:type:`long` are 32-bit values. This is typically accomplished by defining the relevant size and offset types as 64-bit values. Such files are @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ Large file support is enabled in Python when the size of an :c:type:`off_t` is larger than a :c:type:`long` and the :c:type:`long long` is at least as large as an :c:type:`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:: +to enable this mode. For example, with Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 you need to do +something like:: CFLAGS="`getconf LFS_CFLAGS`" OPT="-g -O2 $CFLAGS" \ ./configure |