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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] avoid possible overflow in delta size filtering computation
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:39:17 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Brandon Casey wrote:

> 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

Whatever. Same issue.


Nicolas