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By JT Pennington

153: Big int trouble

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Published August 03, 2016 7:00am

This week on BSDNow, we have a variety of news to discuss, covering quite the spectrum of BSD. (Including a new DragonFly release!).This episode was brought to you by

Headlinesmy int is too big“The NCC Group report describes the bugs, but not the history of the code.”“Several of them, as reported by NCC, involved similar integer truncation issues. Actually, they involved very similar modern 64 bit code meeting classic 32 bit code”“The thrsleep system call is a part of the kernel code that supports threads. As the name impli...

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