From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:43:42 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] zlib: zlib can only process 4GB at a time Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1307736948-16956-7-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Junio C Hamano 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