Re: [PATCH 2/2] MinGW: 64-bit file offsets

> The type 'off_t' should be used everywhere so that the bit-depth of that
> type can be adjusted in the standard C library, and you just need to
> recompile your program to benefit from the extended precision.
>
> Only that it was not done that way in the MS runtime library.
>
> This patch reroutes off_t to off64_t and provides the other necessary
> changes so that finally, clones larger than 2 gigabyte work on Windows
> (provided you are on a file system that allows files larger than 2gb).
>
> Initial patch by Sickboy <sb@dev-heaven.net>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>