Eelco Dolstra
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This caused "nix-store --import" to compute an incorrect hash on NARs that don't fit in an unsigned int. The import would succeed, but "nix-store --verify-path" or subsequent exports would detect an incorrect hash. A deeper issue is that the export/import format does not contain a hash, so we can't detect such issues early. Also, I learned that -Wall does not warn about this.
Nix, the purely functional package manager
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