Max Lekare wrote:
> There is no handling for limits or stride greater/smaller than
> LONG_MAX/LONG_MIN in the range() function.
> Instead the results vary from the error message "E727: Start past end"
> when at least one of the arguments are close to the limit ex:
>
> :put =range(2147483647,2147483648)
>
> to an output of a seemingly random list of negative numbers, ex:
>
> :put =range(2220500000,2220600000)
>
> to vim crashing when arguments are too long.
> The same behavior can be observed when trying to accomplish a similar
> thing with a for loop.
>
> :for i in range(2220500000,2220600000) | put=i | endfor
>
> Is it possible to validate the input to avoid this behavior?
range() was meant to be used for smaller numbers. The behavior with big
numbers depends on the compiler, size of int. So ranges outside of 32
bit signed int is undefined.
Vim should not crash though. What command crashes your Vim?
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