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I'm curious, what type of application would require printing strings over 2GB in size?

• tomohawk 5y ago
  A bug elsewhere could lead to this
• guidovranken 5y ago
  (Intentionally crafted) large metadata in a video file (which can be very large anyway, so 2GB extra doesn't stand out). A string field in a (machine-generated) JSON/XML dataset. And like tomohawk says, lack of a mechanism that prevents accruing large blobs (for example not limiting the size of an incoming HTTP header in a web server).
• staticassertion 5y ago
  The one that plans to print much shorter strings, but accepts arbitrary strings.
• tsimionescu 5y ago
  Binary file contents are often strings, right? If you're using snprintf() to copy strings, as the thread was suggesting, there are valid reasons to try to copy such strings (though they would be few and far between).