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Re: Integer overflow in operator new

From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>
To: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>, Karl Chen <quarl at cs dot berkeley dot edu>, "J.C. Pizarro" <jcpiza at gmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 06 Apr 2007 18:51:24 -0500
Subject: Re: Integer overflow in operator new
References: <quack.20070406T0840.lthfy7d1pfs@roar.cs.berkeley.edu> <998d0e4a0704061535n4920c859jf7737c778532e66e@mail.gmail.com> <quack.20070406T1545.lthd52hazqj@roar.cs.berkeley.edu> <de8d50360704061557p711e2e40k7078222e062c97a8@mail.gmail.com> <4616D177.6000706@avtrex.com>

David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> writes:

| One could argue that issuing some type of diagnostic (either at
| compile time or run time) would be helpful for people that don't
| remember to write correct code 100% of the time.

I raised this very issue a long time ago; a long-term GCC contributor
vocally opposed checking the possible overflow.  I hope something will
happen this time.

-- Gaby

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