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Yep. You could argue to death almost any line of C code that contains an arithmetic operation in this way. But the ASSERT is not supposed to catch everything. I

Yep. You could argue to death almost any line of C code that contains an arithmetic operation in this way. But the ASSERT is not supposed to catch everything. It's a basic protection against programming errors. (Realistically I rarely have strings that are 700 MB large). Unfortunately, arithmetic overflow doesn't result in an exception. I rarely want wraparound.

leetcrew 8y ago
> Realistically I rarely have strings that are 700 MB large maybe not that long, but it's not that hard to lose a '\0' when serializing complicated data structures to disk. when you read the file back in, suddenly one of your structs contains an arbitrarily long string. i've seen several 32+MB strings get created this way.