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

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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 5, 2011, 13:49 UTC
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Heya,
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 13:45, Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> wrote:
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> 32-bit platforms with no type larger than 'long' cannot detect this
> case and will continue to silently misbehave, but the misbehaviour
> will be somewhat different and more useful, since bigFileThreshold was
> also being mistakenly treated as a signed value when it should have
> been unsigned.

Is it not possible to detect that the target value won't fit in the max size of an int when parsing the config value?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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  3. Sverre RabbelierSep 5, 2011
  4. NixSep 5, 2011
  5. Clemens BuchacherSep 6, 2011
  6. NixSep 6, 2011
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  10. NixSep 6, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2011
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