Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes: > On 05/18/2012 01:29 PM, Serge Belyshev wrote: > >> this part does exactly the same: increment ctx->total [1] by one, where >> larger increment may be needed. > > OK, I see. But this bug can only happen on unusual hosts, right? > I.e., hosts where size_t is wider than 64 bits, or where > uint64_t does not exist. Anyway, the bug can easily be fixed even > if it's only on unusual hosts, so I pushed this further patch.
Correct, size_t needs to be larger than 64 bits. Rather hard to imagine a computer processing more than 2^64 bits of data in a single call in a finite time, and I must confess I overlooked this initially, but still it needs to be at least mentioned in the code.
