From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 21:11:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (tac_seekable): Store match length in regoff_t, not int.  Assume that
X-Git-Tag: CPPI-1_12~26
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=916bce3a7c3f0d40350786e7ca5d8e55f0bc4f03;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(tac_seekable): Store match length in regoff_t, not int.  Assume that
negative return values less than -2 represent regoff_t overflow.
---

diff --git a/src/tac.c b/src/tac.c
index 1786b76fd5..c5fbe24e6a 100644
--- a/src/tac.c
+++ b/src/tac.c
@@ -255,14 +255,18 @@ tac_seekable (int input_fd, const char *file)
 	 Otherwise, make `match_start' < `G_buffer'. */
       if (sentinel_length == 0)
 	{
-	  ptrdiff_t i = match_start - G_buffer;
-	  int ret;
+	  size_t i = match_start - G_buffer;
+	  regoff_t ri = i;
+	  regoff_t range = 1 - ri;
+	  regoff_t ret;
 
-	  if (! (INT_MIN < i && i <= INT_MAX))
+	  if (1 < range)
 	    error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("record too large"));
 
-	  ret = re_search (&compiled_separator, G_buffer, i, i - 1, -i, &regs);
-	  if (ret == -1)
+	  if (range == 1
+	      || ((ret = re_search (&compiled_separator, G_buffer,
+				    i, i - 1, range, &regs))
+		  == -1))
 	    match_start = G_buffer - 1;
 	  else if (ret == -2)
 	    {