Re: patch for transfer.c

[Janne Blomqvist <Janne dot Blomqvist at tkk dot fi>]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:30:25AM +0200, François-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> >It's not OK. It will probably break with large files on 32-bit
> >systems. Instead of casting bytes_left to size_t, nbytes should be
> >cast to gfc_offset.
> 
> Hum, I tried to think it through, so let's see where logic failed me...
> 
> On usual 32-bit systems, off_t and size_t are both 32 bits;

The "usual" 32-bit system these days is one with large file support,
i.e. off_t (or off64_t, depending on the LFS implementation) is 64
bits.


-- 
Janne Blomqvist

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