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Gopal V commented on HADOOP-11901:
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If the only goal is overflow prevention you can skip a multiply and do {{size +
size/2}} - the jdk bin-search bug was similar.
> BytesWritable supports only up to ~700MB (instead of 2G) due to integer
> overflow.
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> Key: HADOOP-11901
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11901
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Reynold Xin
> Assignee: Reynold Xin
> Attachments: HADOOP-11901.diff
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> BytesWritable.setSize increases the buffer size by 1.5 each time ( * 3 / 2).
> This is an unsafe operation since it restricts the max size to ~700MB, since
> 700MB * 3 > 2GB.
> I didn't write a test case for this case because in order to trigger this,
> I'd need to allocate around 700MB, which is pretty expensive to do in a unit
> test. Note that I didn't throw any exception in the case integer overflow as
> I didn't want to change that behavior (callers to this might expect a
> java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException).
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