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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 2014 04:08:20 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r273734 - head/bin/dd
Message-ID:  <20141028040638.O3114@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20141027162034.GN1492@f10.opsec.eu>
References:  <201410271138.s9RBcHrA002447@svn.freebsd.org> <20141028005225.S2013@besplex.bde.org> <20141027162034.GN1492@f10.opsec.eu>

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On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Kurt Jaeger wrote:

>>> Log:
>>>  bin/dd: Fix incorrect casting of arguments
> [...]
>> Both of these work correctly in my version (with a relatively small patch
>> and no breakage of other cases).  (I actually typed large values as -1
>> and 11111111111111111111111111.  -1 means (uintmax_t)-1 although this
>> is undocumented and now broken).
>
> So, given this detailed review, should I revert the change ?

Yes.  You would have to change half of it just to get it to compile
on 32-bit arches.

Bruce



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