From 121dd6636224380d5e5ca5286d627d9137c48312 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Lenox <lenox.joseph@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 22:08:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Handle possible narrowing of data type between unsigned long
 and signed long

---
 src/GUI/Plater.cpp | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/GUI/Plater.cpp b/src/GUI/Plater.cpp
index 7eb51d9a8..24cce1573 100644
--- a/src/GUI/Plater.cpp
+++ b/src/GUI/Plater.cpp
@@ -950,7 +950,13 @@ void Plater::set_number_of_copies() {
     long copies = -1;
     copies = wxGetNumberFromUser("", _("Enter the number of copies of the selected object:"), _("Copies"), model_object->instances.size(), 0, 1000, this);
     if (copies < 0) return;
-    long diff {copies - model_object->instances.size() };
+    long instance_count = 0;
+    if (model_object->instances.size() <= LONG_MAX) {
+        instance_count = static_cast<long>(model_object->instances.size());
+    } else {
+        instance_count = LONG_MAX;
+    }
+    long diff {copies - instance_count };
 
     if      (diff == 0) { this->resume_background_process(); }
     else if (diff > 0)  { this->increase(diff); }