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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] zlib: zlib can only process 4GB at a time
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:52:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110613115222.GA10501@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=sT_LxRaJSM3Cj-QkSwqGan29K7A@mail.gmail.com>

Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> Looking a bit more at the code, it seems that we currently use
> "unsigned long" a lot of places where "size_t" should have been used.

As Junio's comment about 32-bit platforms hints, when it comes to be
the time to change all those places, wouldn't off_t be a better
choice?

Thanks --- it is exciting to watch this topic move forward, inch by
inch.  And thanks for the hint about invalid word size == sizeof(long)
assumptions on Windows.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-13 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-10 20:15 [PATCH 0/6] zlib only processes 4GB at a time Junio C Hamano
2011-06-10 20:15 ` [PATCH 1/6] zlib: refactor error message formatter Junio C Hamano
2011-06-10 20:15 ` [PATCH 2/6] zlib: wrap remaining calls to direct inflate/inflateEnd Junio C Hamano
2011-06-10 20:15 ` [PATCH 3/6] zlib: wrap inflateInit2 used to accept only for gzip format Junio C Hamano
2011-06-10 20:15 ` [PATCH 4/6] zlib: wrap deflate side of the API Junio C Hamano
2011-06-10 22:23   ` Thiago Farina
2011-06-10 23:00     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-10 20:15 ` [PATCH 5/6] zlib: wrap deflateBound() too Junio C Hamano
2011-06-10 20:15 ` [PATCH 6/6] zlib: zlib can only process 4GB at a time Junio C Hamano
2011-06-12 20:43   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-06-12 21:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-12 21:46       ` Matthieu Moy
2011-06-13 11:17       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-06-13 11:52         ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-06-13 11:56         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-10 23:47 ` [PATCH 7/6] zlib: allow feeding more than 4GB in one go Junio C Hamano

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