>>>>> "LO" == Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
LO> The 2GB size limits of ia32 come in to play due to byte addressing
LO> (versus word addressing) in ia32 plus the use of signed single register
LO> two's-complement integers.
LO> But, as always, I reserve the right to be wrong.
You are wrong. The file size limit has to do with the data size of
your file offset pointer. This is not necessarily a 32 bit quantity
on a 32-bit processor.
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