From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:52:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] zlib: zlib can only process 4GB at a time
Message-ID: <20110613115222.GA10501@elie>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=sT_LxRaJSM3Cj-QkSwqGan29K7A@mail.gmail.com>

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.