bug#53696: Integer overflow on Guix GC size calculation

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com> skribis:

> It looks to me like a 32-bit unsigned int should have been turned to 64-bit 
> unsigned long or bigint
> but somehow got cast/interpreted as signed, becoming signed 64-bit long,
> which then in turn was seen by the print as 64-bit unsigned long.

That could be the explanation; there were a couple of bugs along these
lines fixed recently:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51983#4

It would have been good to see which store item that came right before
the huge number.  Could it be that it was texlive-texmf, or flightgear,
or repeat-masker, the three packages whose store item size exceeds 2^31?

Ekaitz, what guix-daemon version are you running?

Thanks,
Ludo’.