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diff --git a/innobase/include/univ.i b/innobase/include/univ.i
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--- a/innobase/include/univ.i
+++ b/innobase/include/univ.i
@@ -204,8 +204,12 @@ headers may define 'bool' differently. Do not assume that 'bool' is a ulint! */
#endif
/* The following number as the length of a logical field means that the field
-has the SQL NULL as its value. */
-#define UNIV_SQL_NULL ULINT_UNDEFINED
+has the SQL NULL as its value. NOTE that because we assume that the length
+of a field is a 32-bit integer when we store it, for example, to an undo log
+on disk, we must have also this number fit in 32 bits, also in 64-bit
+computers! */
+
+#define UNIV_SQL_NULL ULINT32_UNDEFINED
/* Lengths which are not UNIV_SQL_NULL, but bigger than the following
number indicate that a field contains a reference to an externally