Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since max_bytes_to_format cannot be negative, the second 'if' will > never trigger, so the whole six lines are moot.
It can trigger if there is an arithmetic overflow. > Further, the Open Group says that 'od' should not produce an error > when '-j' plus '-N' is longer than the file, so the above section > can be removed. But the problem is that we don't know whether -j plus -N is longer than the file in this case. The overflow prevents us from determining that. It is possible, on some platforms, for files to contain more bytes than the widest C integer can represent. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
