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Nick Wellnhofer reassigned CLOWNFISH-38:
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Assignee: Nick Wellnhofer
> Safe helpers to allocate arrays
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> Key: CLOWNFISH-38
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOWNFISH-38
> Project: Apache Lucy-Clownfish
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Nick Wellnhofer
> Assignee: Nick Wellnhofer
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> Code like {{MALLOCATE(num_elems * sizeof(Type))}} in often unsafe because it
> fails to check whether the multiplication overflows. We should provide helper
> functions to allocate and reallocate arrays safely. See {{reallocarray}} in
> BSD, for example.
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