Re: uint64

[Markus Friedl <Markus.Friedl%informatik.uni-erlangen.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:14:13AM -0700, Joseph Galbraith wrote:
> I think mpint would be a mistake.

I agree with Joseph, the sftp subsystem should not depend
on bignum libraries.

Early versions of OpenSSH's sftp-server used the approach
suggested by Joseph with success:

> Regardless, such an implementation should treat
> a uint64 as
> 
>   uint32 highPart
>   uint32 lowPart
> 
> and fail the operation if highPart != 0 and it
> can't support it.

-markus