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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:44:15 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: deo AT logos-m DOT ru
CC: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <10678.000726@logos-m.ru> (message from Egor Duda on Wed, 26 Jul
	2000 16:16:54 +0400)
Subject: Re: st_blocks incorrect for files larger than 2Gbytes
References:  <10678 DOT 000726 AT logos-m DOT ru>


>   buf->st_blocks = (buf->st_size + S_BLKSIZE-1) / S_BLKSIZE;
>
> which way is preferable?

Casting buf->st_size to (unsigned long) before doing the math is.
off_t is signed, but negative sizes are meaningless.

However, this topic belongs on the newlib list, not the cygwin list.