Subject: bug#24311: [bug-diffutils] bug#24311: bug#24311: bug#24311: [PATCH] maint: accommodate LP64 systems

From: Andreas Grünbacher <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:39:34 +0200

2016-08-28 0:07 GMT+02:00 Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>:
> On further thought, I came up with a patch that should be portable without
> overly complicating the code or hurting efficiency, so I installed it
> (attached). Please give it a try on your platform.

FWIW, patch has the following typedef for line numbers:

  typedef off_t lin;

Maybe it would be time to switch to int64_t / uint64_t and PRId64 /
PRIu64 in diff as well as in patch?

Andreas