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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] cutils: Use int64_t instead of ssize_t for
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 01/10/11 11:29, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The strtosz() function parses byte count strings and converts K, M, G
> units.  The ssize_t type is not appropriate because block devices need
> 64-bit range even on 32-bit hosts.  Switch from ssize_t to int64_t.

Hmmm I think this is identical to the patch I posted last week :)

Cheers,
Jes