Re: OT (Slightly?) 64-bit data - not a bug but a question

[Jim Meyering]

Rob Rye wrote:
...
> Are there any documented gzip bugs specifically related to such data or 
> architecture?

Not that I know of.

However, gzip's --list (-l) option does have an inherent 32-bit-related
limitation: it fails to report the true uncompressed size when that size
is 4 GiB or larger.  Note that this is a limitation imposed by the format,
not really a bug.

While it's probably too new (hence not yet as ubiquitous as gzip),
the LZMA format is far superior on most fronts, with far higher
compression ratios and much faster decompression.
Take a look at the XZ utils:
  http://tukaani.org/xz/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz