[MPlayer-dev-eng] mingw32 large file support

[joerg at britannica.bec.de]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:04:19PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> Instead your header should use the preprocessor to replace the broken
> 32bit versions with 64bit ones. If applications directly use these
> stupid *64 interfaces, they're not remotely portable and will not work
> on non-stupid implementations where file offsets are always 64bit
> (like my new replacement libc :).

Or all the BSDs for that matter. A good example of why this is broken is
transcode, where all proper platforms have to hack around the Linux
idiosyncracy. Please don't repeat that mistake.

Joerg