272315 - Downloads larger than 2.1gb go negative

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 228968

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Nate Solberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I believe the variable is too small for download sizes greater than 2.1gb. I
wasn't watching it exclusively, however when I checked it around 2.2 it had
negative numbers for size and speed. 

I hope you understand that I'm not going to try to reproduce this because it's
fairly mild, and probably just an "int" instead of a "long." The file still came
in fine, just a cosmetic thing.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start a large download (like the Fedora 3 DVD Installer)
2.Watch to see when it changes over


Actual Results:  
The speed and size of the download switched over to negative numbers. Usually
when I've seen this in other programs, it's just a variable not being big enough.

Expected Results:  
Use a larger variable since we can download DVD's now, not just CD images.

I only did this on an Athlon 64 running Windows 2000. 

I doubt it is a platform specific thing though, unless Mac's use bigger "int"s.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I doubt it is a platform specific thing though, unless Mac's use bigger "int"s.

They aren't bigger, just somehow, undefinably, better, and well worth the extra
memory involved in storing the same size numbers.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 184452 ***

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

no, this is a duplicate of bug 228968

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 228968 ***

Comment 4

[Mike Kowalski]

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