> There is a poorly-documented restriction that BLCKSZ can't exceed 32K
> (IIRC, this is because block offsets are stored in signed shorts somewhere).
> Probably would be a good idea to mention this in the comments in
> config.h.in.
>
> For the long run it would be nice to remove the restriction. I have no
> idea whether that would be easy or hard. Ideally we could do something
> like
>
> #if BLCKSZ > 32767
> typedef int BlockOffset;
> #else
> typedef short BlockOffset;
> #endif
>
> but finding all the places that need to use the typedef might be a pain.
Added comment to config.h.in, and TODO item:
* Allow BLCKSZ <= 64k, not <= 32k
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