On 12/28/2011 09:30 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > 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 ;-)
That's appropriate for people scanning the summary, on the vast majority of systems
