# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1177681204 0
# Node ID 99183fbe173b0ee6ff7a4b9d265d0cdc5b330d5c
# Parent  f37a630c73d3fcca01c08d28b4e2a92581052c48
Add item about support for large files on MS-Windows.

diff -r f37a630c73d3 -r 99183fbe173b etc/TODO
--- a/etc/TODO	Fri Apr 27 06:39:45 2007 +0000
+++ b/etc/TODO	Fri Apr 27 13:40:04 2007 +0000
@@ -484,6 +484,13 @@
   the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
   and from the calls.
 
+** Modify the emulation of `stat' for MS-Windows to support large files.
+  The current version uses the stock Windows definition of `struct
+  stat', where the file's size is returned as a 32-bit integer.  That
+  overflows for files larger than 4GB.  To fix, modify `stat' to use
+  64-bit size, and use a declaration of `struct stat' that supports
+  such sizes.
+
 ** Make language-info-alist customizable.  Currently a user can customize
   only the variable `current-language-environment'.