From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:20:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] avoid possible overflow in delta size filtering computation
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In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903241535010.26337@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On a 32-bit system, the maximum possible size for an object is less than 
> 4GB, while 64-bit systems may cope with larger objects.  Due to this 
> limitation, variables holding object sizes are using an unsigned long 
> type (32 bits on 32-bit systems, or 64 bits on 64-bit systems).

FYI: except on windows 64-bit where long is still 32 bits AFAIK

-brandon