gzip bug on large files

[address@hidden]

I encountered a bug using gzip to compress a file.
Here is a bug report.

Thank you,

-Denny Dahl

Ps. You guys who develop and maintain open source software
produce the highest quality software in the world.  My hat
is off to you...

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Version of gzip:

    $ gzip -V
    gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
    Compilation options:
    DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H

Operating system:

    $ uname -a
    AIX u060dw05 3 4 000132414C00

Compiler:

    $ cc -help
      C for AIX Compiler
      ...

Description of bug:

    When attempting to gzip a file larger than 2 Gbytes,
    gzip does not compress the file.  Instead it prints
    the following message to stderr:

    <filename>: Value too large to be stored in data type

    where <filename> is replaced with the name of the file
    to be compressed.  It exits immediately with status 1.

Sample shell session:

    $ ls -l in.dat
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 uprod    gprod    2287689681 Oct 09 14:08 in.dat
    $ gzip in.dat
    in.dat: Value too large to be stored in data type
    $ print $?
    1



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