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Date:      Mon, 02 Jan 2017 22:54:08 +0000
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, cem@freebsd.org
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r311109 - head/usr.bin/patch
Message-ID:  <CAG6CVpV7=Dx6VywV0MRY7z7LMwQrBcb-1qUhjngxjFsSZZHvHg@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <201701021823.v02INWXc028047@repo.freebsd.org> <CAG6CVpUUFoTZBO0Ja2aSn%2BeMi_BO0u131YKQ1yQumu%2BdRhVY3A@mail.gmail.com> <aa9172cb-cb95-36cf-c21d-48f8a7450ad5@FreeBSD.org>

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I was suggesting using UINT32_MAX/2 on all platforms (which is safe
everywhere).

Best,
Conrad

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 11:48 AM Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi;
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> On 01/02/17 13:28, Conrad Meyer wrote:
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> > IMO this patch was mostly fine, you just need to restrict line length
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> > to UINT32_MAX/2 instead of UINT_MAX (== UINT32_MAX) for 32-bit
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> > platforms.
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> >
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> > Best,
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> > Conrad
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> >
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> I dislike the idea of special cases for some platforms. I guess moving
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> to int/INT_MAX would be the way to go.
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> TBH, no one has asked for patches wider than USHRT_MAX though.
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> Pedro.
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