I should have said that no successful copyright case is going to hinge on that. Oracle's position on that was legally incorrect, for the reason I was alluding

I should have said that no successful copyright case is going to hinge on that. Oracle's position on that was legally incorrect, for the reason I was alluding to: the relevant standard requires that illegal copying involve the core of the creative expression of the original work, which a generic range check function clearly doesn't do.