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.
