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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Support sizes >=2G in various config options accepting 'g' sizes.

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Sep 6, 2011, 10:22 UTC
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Am 9/6/2011 11:13, schrieb Nix:
> ... amounts to writing our own strtol()
> specifically for this one case, to see if the parsed number is
> too long.
Why so? strtol() can report overflow:
RETURN VALUE
    ...
    If the correct value is outside the range of representable values,
{LONG_MIN}, {LONG_MAX}, {LLONG_MIN}, or {LLONG_MAX} shall be returned
(according to the sign of the value), and errno set to [ERANGE].
-- Hannes
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  5. Clemens BuchacherSep 6, 2011
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  11. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2011
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