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Re: examples/loadables/finfo.c type problems

From Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: examples/loadables/finfo.c type problems
Date 2018-09-09 21:54 +0200
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References <20180907212804.GC60818@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <91961426-1804-5ea3-521d-f2253e5c9eb7@case.edu>

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Chet Ramey:

> >                 printf("%ld\n", (long) st->st_size);
> > 
> > which potentially truncate values.
> 
> Pretty much all the systems bash runs on these days have 64-bit longs.
> How big a file do you have? But the fix is the same as above.

32-bit platforms (IA-32, ARMv7) are still around.  And BSD has had
64-bit off_t on 32-bit architectures for about a quarter century.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

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Re: examples/loadables/finfo.c type problems Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> - 2018-09-09 21:54 +0200

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