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Re: [PATCH] xdr_array and calloc security fix


Ulrich Drepper wrote:

It should be possible to have something like

  ((a | b) > (a * b))

for unsigned values.  I'm not 100% sure, though.
I mean, this is an approximation which lets us avoid the division in many (most?) cases.

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