[Haskell-cafe] ByteString.getContents fails for files >2GB on OS X

[Erik Hesselink]

Do you have a 32bit or 64bit GHC build? That might have something to
do with it, if you're nearing 2^32 (or 2^31) bytes.

Erik

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Shaun Jackman <sjackman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Data.ByteString.Char8.getContents fails for files >2GB on OS X. Is
> there a fix for this?
>
> $ cat getContents.hs
> main = getContents
> $ ./getContents <smallFile
> $ ./getContents <bigFile
> getContents: <stdin>: hGetBuf: invalid argument (Invalid argument)
> $ ghc --version
> The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.1
>
> Mac OS X 10.7.4 64-bit
>
> As a workaround, I used ByteString.Lazy instead of the strict
> ByteString, which worked, but found it was ~4 times slower for my
> program, so I'd like to get the strict ByteString working with large
> files.
>
> Cheers,
> Shaun
>
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