Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 12/28/2011 05:56 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Can anyone name a real system on which forming a pointer like this, >> "buffer + (size_t)(-1)" actually provokes a trap or some other real problem? > > I don't know of particular hardware where this would trap > (alpha can be configured to trap on integer overflow I think). > > Your change is worth it for clarity at least.
Thanks. My only doubt is whether to include the word "theoretically" in the one-line summary ;-)
