# std::streamoff

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Defined in header `<ios>` |  |
typedef /*implementation-defined*/ streamoff; |  |

The type `std::streamoff` is an implementation-defined signed integral(since C++11) type of sufficient size to represent the maximum possible file size supported by the operating system. Typically, this is an alias for long long.(since C++11)

It is used to represent offsets from stream positions (values of type std::fpos). A `std::streamoff` value constructed from -1 is also used to represent error conditions by some of the I/O library functions.

### Relationship with std::fpos

- the difference between two std::fpos objects is a value of type `std::streamoff`

- a value of type `std::streamoff` may be added or subtracted from std::fpos yielding a different std::fpos.

- a value of type std::fpos is implicitly convertible to `std::streamoff` (the conversion result is the offset from the beginning of the file).

- a value of type std::fpos is constructible from a value of type `std::streamoff`

### See also

fpos | represents absolute position in a stream or a file (class template)
seekg | sets the input position indicator (public member function of `std::basic_istream<CharT,Traits>`)
seekp | sets the output position indicator (public member function of `std::basic_ostream<CharT,Traits>`)

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