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

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 12, 2011, 20:43 UTC
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> The size of objects we read from the repository and data we try to put
> into the repository are represented in "unsigned long", so that on larger
> architectures we can handle objects that weigh more than 4GB.

shouldn't this be "size_t" instead of "unsigned long"? "unsigned long" is 32bit on Win64, whereas size_t is 64bit:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s3f49ktz(v=vs.80).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384083(VS.85).aspx

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Message 10 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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