GNU bug report logs - #19154
[PATCH] Extend file size support in paste.

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias <at> stoeckmann.org>

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 19154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tobias Stöckmann <tobias <at> stoeckmann.org>
To: Pádraig Brady <p <at> draigbrady.com>, 
 19154 <19154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#19154: [PATCH] Extend file size support in paste.
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:26:47 +0100 (CET)

Haven't used any tool except an editor. ;)

I was curious about paste's internals, so I gave my reviewing skills a try.


Tobias

> On November 23, 2014 at 9:12 PM Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> wrote:
> Nice one. This would result in truncation of the output
> iff there was a \n at position 2^32 in the file on a 32 bit system.
> I'll apply that in a little while (I can't think of an efficient way to test).
> 
> Did you notice this through inspection or compiler warnings wrt integer
> overflow ?
> 
> thanks!
> Pádraig.
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