On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 08:19:27PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Change the "int" type used by compute_assignment() to "intmax_t". On > 64 bit systems this changes the overflow "die" added in the preceding > commit (which before that was a segfault) to something that merely > takes a very long time and a lot of memory to run. > > On my relatively beefy system this completes: > > git -P range-diff --creation-factor=50 origin/master...git-for-windows/main > > In around 300 seconds, with a reported max RSS of just under 18GB, but > it does give you correct results for all ~50k commitsin that range. So here you do what I think is the "real" fix. And at this point I suspect that the overflow checks here: > -static inline int cost_index(int *cost, int a, int b, int c) > +static inline intmax_t cost_index(intmax_t *cost, intmax_t a, intmax_t b, intmax_t c) > { > - int r; > + intmax_t r; > > if (INT_MULTIPLY_WRAPV(a, c, &r)) > - die(_("integer overflow in cost[%d + %d * %d] multiplication"), b, a, c); > + die(_("integer overflow in cost[%"PRIuMAX" + %"PRIuMAX" * %"PRIuMAX"] multiplication"), b, a, c); > if (INT_ADD_WRAPV(b, r, &r)) > - die(_("integer overflow in cost[%d + ((%d * %d) = %d)] addition"), b, a, c, r); > + die(_("integer overflow in cost[%"PRIuMAX" + ((%"PRIuMAX" * %"PRIuMAX") = %"PRIuMAX")] addition"), b, a, c, r); > > return r; cannot be triggered. We are indexing an array that is already limited to size_t. So using that type should be sufficient (or else we have problems even outside of overflow). And for that reason I'd probably pick size_t (or ssize_t; you don't need it in the hunk above, but presumably some of the other code cares about signedness. And as I said earlier, it's effectively the same from a protection standpoint). -Peff