bug#38766: closed (bug: "gzip -l" truncates reported decompressed size to 32 bits)

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and subject line Re: bug#17804: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in 
gzip file format
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #17804,
regarding bug: "gzip -l" truncates reported decompressed size to 32 bits
to be marked as done.

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> bug: "gzip -l" truncates reported decompressed size to 32 bits
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> Fri, 27 Dec 2019 20:35:13 +0000
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> As title states.
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> openSUSE Tumbleweed 20191216 (x86_64)
> gzip 1.10
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> (Number delimiters manually added for clarity below.)
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> # zcat backup.bin.gz | wc -c
> 67,645,849,600
> # gzip -l backup.bin.gz
> compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
> 9,458,450,396    3,221,340,160 -193.6% backup.bin
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> 67,645,849,600 => 0xf_c001_c000 => truncate => 0xc001_c000 => 3,221,340,160
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> Thanks!
> Jason Mancini
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> Re: bug#17804: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format
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> Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:33:12 -0800
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> On 6/18/14 15:12, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > One simple way forward would be to implement what pigz -tl does, namely, 
> > decompress the input stream and discard the output, but print its size.
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> I finally got around to implementing that suggestion:
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> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=cf26200380585019e927fe3cf5c0ecb7c8b3ef14
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=32fef43b442c7abc70414863d64718cd06f6477a
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> So I am closing this old bug report.
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