On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:15:58 -0800 Elijah Newren <new...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The possibility of setting merge.renameLimit beyond 2^16 raises the > possibility that the values passed to progress can exceed 2^32. > Use uint64_t, because it "ought to be enough for anybody". :-) > > Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <new...@gmail.com> > --- > This does imply 64-bit math for all progress operations. Possible > alternatives > I could think of listed at > https://public-inbox.org/git/CABPp-BH1Cpc9UfYpmBBAHWSqadg=QuD=28qx1ov29zdvf4n...@mail.gmail.com/ > Opinions of others on whether 64-bit is okay, or preference for which > alternative > is picked? I haven't looked into this in much detail, but another alternative to consider is to use size_t everywhere. This also allows us to use st_add and st_mult, which checks overflow for us. Changing progress to use the size_t of the local machine makes sense to me.
