On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyone who stores the limit in a signed int (or long).  Do I know of
> any such software?  No.  Am I willing to risk the possibility of such
> existing to squeeze out a few more bytes?  No.
>
> I will happily set it to straight 2GB, or even higher if we don't care
> about possible trouble, so long as everybody promises not to complain
> if an issue is found. :)

To phrase it another way, I was actually hoping that by avoiding the
"what about overflow?" worries, we could move forward faster.  If
that's not a worry, great, I just didn't want to get tied down.

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