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		clarry on May 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Common LibreSSL porting mistakes How many systems today get calloc() wrong? I checked the implementation of quite a few open source implementations a year or two back, and I don't recall seeing one get it wrong.

X-Istence on May 2, 2014 [–]

The question is whether they do overflow checks if you pass in two very large integers...

clarry on May 2, 2014 | [–]

Exactly. A conforming implementation must do that. I didn't find one that doesn't, although I didn't look too hard either.

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