Subject: Re: bug#17804: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Petr Stodůlka <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:33:12 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 6/18/14 15:12, Paul Eggert wrote:
> One simple way forward would be to implement what pigz -tl does, namely, 
> decompress the input stream and discard the output, but print its size.

I finally got around to implementing that suggestion:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=cf26200380585019e927fe3cf5c0ecb7c8b3ef14
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=32fef43b442c7abc70414863d64718cd06f6477a

So I am closing this old bug report.