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Re: [patch] Correct range checking in mallopt/mxfast/tcache [BZ #25194]
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <codonell at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:42:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: [patch] Correct range checking in mallopt/mxfast/tcache [BZ #25194]
"Carlos O'Donell" <codonell@redhat.com> writes:
> * Documentation in a comment that this is safe with an example.
Also, "overflow" is the only way to pass real values larger than
size_t/2, which would get cast to negative int, then back to positive
size_t.