On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:07 AM Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On one hand, its callers should not need to worry about details
> like overflow. On the other hand, in fact it does exactly what its
> callers tell it to do, the problematic part is actually the
> incremented id. On 64bit, it is fairly easy, we can just simply
> know 'long' is longer than 32bit and leverage this to detect overflow,
> but on 32bit this clearly doesn't work.
>
> Let me think about it.

Davide, do you mind to try the attached patch?

It should handle this overflow case more gracefully, I hope.

Thanks.

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