[rfc] Overflow in transfer-rate

Denis PILAT denis.pilat@st.com
Mon Jun 11 13:15:00 GMT 2007


Andrew STUBBS wrote:
> Denis PILAT wrote:
>> In symfile.c/print_transfer_performance (), an overflow can occure 
>> when data_count (see below) is a large number.
>>
>> I propose either the following 1st patch, or to pass to "%llu"into 
>> the ui_out_field_fmt functino call, see the next patch proposal.
>
> I might also be worth taking a look at this proposal from some time 
> ago http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2006-10/msg00184.html
>
Well, it sounds like an internal ST discussion but I prefer the patch in 
your link, it avoids overflow *and* prints transfer rate in a much 
clever way.

Denis



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