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From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-25 04:15:51


On Sunday 21 May 2006 15:14, Andreas Fredriksson wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I was toying around with bjam from CVS today and I noticed that
> jam0.exe would crash when built for x64.

Hi Andreas,
thanks for the patch. I've verified that it does not break 32-bit windows, and
just committed it.

> It seems the bug is that ShortPathToLongPath function uses DWORDs for
> indexes while at the same time relying on them wrapping around; this
> doesn't work well when indices are 64-bit (DWORD is still a 32-bit
> datatype).

Can you explain where's relying on wrapping around? I can't find any.

Thanks,
Volodya

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