Bug#8321 - myisampack bug in compression algorithm
This is the second of three changesets. It contains the pure bug fix. It also contains the second after-review fixes. The problem was that with gcc on x86, shifts are done modulo word size. 'value' is 32 bits wide and shifting it by 32 bits is a no-op. This was triggered by an evil distribution of character incidences. A distribution of 2917027827 characters made of 202 distinct values led to 34 occurrences of 32-bit Huffman codes. This might have been the first time ever that write_bits() had to write 32-bit values. Since it can be expected that one day even 32 bits might be insufficient, the third changeset suggests to enlarge some variables to 64 bits.
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