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    Related to SF patch 618135: gzip.py and files > 2G. · fb0ea525
    Tim Peters yazdı
    Fixed the signed/unsigned confusions when dealing with files >= 2GB.
    4GB is still a hard limitation of the gzip file format, though.
    
    Testing this was a bitch on Win98SE due to frequent system freezes.  It
    didn't freeze while running gzip, it kept freezing while trying to *create*
    a > 2GB test file!  This wasn't Python's doing.  I don't know of a
    reasonable way to test this functionality in regrtest.py, so I'm not
    checking in a test case (a test case would necessarily require creating
    a 2GB+ file first, using gzip to zip it, using gzip to unzip it again,
    and then compare before-and-after; so >4GB free space would be required,
    and a loooong time; I did all this "by hand" once).
    
    Bugfix candidate, I guess.
    fb0ea525
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