Re: (ITS#8890) Bug fix patches unbreaking the build on x32 systems

[tg@mirbsd.de]

Howard Chu dixit:

>This patch of yours *introduces a bug*. If you wanted to actually *fix*
>something you should have made sure the malloc'd buffer - which only happe=
ns
>2 lines above the lines you change - was large enough to store a long long=
=2E

That=E2=80=99s not a new bug, then.

That=E2=80=99s a completely separate Y2038 issue of *yours* that
will happen on all platforms, and has nothing to do with
long vs. long long, since a long on an LP64 platform *is*
already as wide as a long long.

In addition to that, use of snprintf will prevent this
from being worse than a mere truncation.

bye,
//mirabilos
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