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RE: java patch: read compressed archives on Alpha
- To: "'Andreas Jaeger'" <aj at suse dot de>, "green at cygnus dot com" <green at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: java patch: read compressed archives on Alpha
- From: Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 07:54:40 -0800
- Cc: "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "apbianco at cygnus dot com" <apbianco at cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- Reply-To: "green at cygnus dot com" <green at cygnus dot com>
On Sunday, December 10, 2000 7:30 AM, Andreas Jaeger [SMTP:aj@suse.de] wrote:
> Since "size" will now only have 32bits, a single file in the directory
> has a length of at most 4 GB. Together with filestart this means that
> it can be at most 4 GB away from the beginning of the zip file.
The 4 GB limit is mandated by the zip file format which uses 4 byte values for
these sizes.
AG