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Re: [PATCH 6/6] zlib: zlib can only process 4GB at a time

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 13, 2011, 11:52 UTC
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<20110613115222.GA10501@elie>
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Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> Looking a bit more at the code, it seems that we currently use
> "unsigned long" a lot of places where "size_t" should have been used.

As Junio's comment about 32-bit platforms hints, when it comes to be the time to change all those places, wouldn't off_t be a better choice?

Thanks --- it is exciting to watch this topic move forward, inch by inch. And thanks for the hint about invalid word size == sizeof(long) assumptions on Windows.

Previous: Erik Faye-LundNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 14 of 16 in “zlib only processes 4GB at a time”
  1. 0/6 zlib only processes 4GB at a timeJunio C Hamano, Jun 10, 2011
  2. 1/6 zlib: refactor error message formatterJunio C Hamano, Jun 10, 2011
  3. 2/6 zlib: wrap remaining calls to direct inflate/inflateEndJunio C Hamano, Jun 10, 2011
  4. 3/6 zlib: wrap inflateInit2 used to accept only for gzip formatJunio C Hamano, Jun 10, 2011
  5. 4/6 zlib: wrap deflate side of the APIJunio C Hamano, Jun 10, 2011
  6. Thiago FarinaJun 10, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2011
  8. 5/6 zlib: wrap deflateBound() tooJunio C Hamano, Jun 10, 2011
  9. 6/6 zlib: zlib can only process 4GB at a timeJunio C Hamano, Jun 10, 2011
  10. Erik Faye-LundJun 12, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2011
  12. Matthieu MoyJun 12, 2011
  13. Erik Faye-LundJun 13, 2011
  14. Jonathan NiederJun 13, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2011
  16. 7/6 zlib: allow feeding more than 4GB in one goJunio C Hamano, Jun 10, 2011

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