Re: [PATCH] http-backend: Fix bad treatment of uintmax_t in Content-Length

> Our Content-Length needs to report an off_t, which could be larger
> precision than size_t on this system (e.g. 32 bit binary built with
> 64 bit large file support).
>
> We also shouldn't be passing a size_t parameter to printf when
> we've used PRIuMAX as the format specifier.
>
> Fix both issues by using uintmax_t for the hdr_int() routine,
> allowing strbuf's size_t to automatically upcast, and off_t to
> always fit.
>
> Also fixed the copy loop we use inside of send_local_file(), we never
> actually updated the size variable so we might as well not use it.
>
> Reported-by: Tarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>

> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
> ---
>
>  Tarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > unhappy.  Curl returns 18 (CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE), the test takes a long
>  > time to fail, and the "out" file looks OK (compared to a linux machine
>  > where the test passes) expect for "Content-Length: 37847251812411".
>  >
>  > Digging into it a bit more with gdb, the call to hdr_int() in
>  > http-backend.c looks OK, but then something goes wrong in
>  > format_write().  Hmmm it looks like my setup does not like PRIuMAX
>  > with size_t, which puts some garbage in the upper bytes of
>
>  Yup, only the right fix is to keep using PRIuMAX... patch below.