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This function is missing on some platforms:
-MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 5.2.1, NetBSD 3.0, Minix 3.1.8, mingw, BeOS.
+MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 5.2.1, NetBSD 3.0, Minix 3.1.8, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
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On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, this function may not
correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.