Antti Haapala added the comment:
Ah indeed, this is a bytearray and it is indeed possible to theoretically
allocate PY_SSIZE_T_MAX bytes, if on an architecture that does segmented memory.
As for
if (addition > PY_SSIZE_T_MAX - len - 1) {
it is very clear to *us* but it is not quite self-documenting on why to do it
this way to someone who doesn't know undefined behaviours in C (hint: next to
no one knows, judging from the amount of complaints that the GCC "bug"
received), instead of say
if (INT_ADD_OVERFLOW(len, addition))
Where the INT_ADD_OVERFLOW would have a comment above explaining why it has to
be done that way. But more discussion about it at
https://bugs.python.org/issue1621
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