Re: Comparing binary files with Diff 3.2 compiled with MinGW

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs,gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 19:37:33 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> Thanks for the diffutils patch.  We're a bit better off with something
> even closer to the pre-2006 approach, which took care to convert
> size_t to off_t before negating it, as that is important on hosts where
> sizeof (size_t) < sizeof (off_t).  Also, it's cleaner to use set_binary_mode
> uniformly rather than set_binary_mode sometimes and SET_BINARY others.
> Here's a revised patch that I hope catches all the issues.  I plan to
> push it after Bruno's binary-io.h patches are pushed.

Works for me, thanks.
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