Max file Size for fwrite() function

[Ben Abbott]

On May 26, 2009, at 7:37 AM, David Kremer wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> it seems that octave has a max file size available with the fwrite()  
> i/o
> function.
>
> Tonight, I ran a script which write on the disk data matrix with  
> "float"
> precision.
>
> The total amount of data should be respectively 2.5 Go and 3.5 Go, but
> my two files are given with a size of 2 Go.
>
> So, I lost a big quantity of data. I almost sure I have enough drive
> space, so I guess it's a built-in limitation of the fwrite function.
>
> Since I'm not an expert in system programming, I don't know really  
> well
> why my file size is limited up to 2 Go.
>
> That could a problem about int max size on 32 bits processor, or
> something like that.
>
> I'm running Debian lenny 5.0.1, and the octave version is 3.0.1 [1].
>
> My CPU is Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2080  @ 1.73GHz.
>
> If you know any mean to get over this limitation, please let me know  
> how
> to do this.
>
> Thank you very much for your support.
>
> [1] http://packages.debian.org/stable/math/octave3.0

David,

Can you provide a simple example demonstrating the problem?

Ben