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[jira] [Commented] (COMPRESS-411) TarUtils.formatLongOctalOrBinaryBytes never uses result of formatLongBinary

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Stefan Bodewig commented on COMPRESS-411:
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@sesuncedu are you still planning to add anything on top of my fix or can we close this?

> TarUtils.formatLongOctalOrBinaryBytes never uses result of formatLongBinary
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COMPRESS-411
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-411
>             Project: Commons Compress
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Archivers
>    Affects Versions: 1.14
>            Reporter: Simon Spero
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.15
>
>
> if the length < 9, formatLongBinary is executed, then overwritten by the results of formatBigIntegerBinary. 
> If the results are not ignored, a unit test would fail.
> Also, do the binary hacks  need to support negative numbers? 



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