Re: [Bug-gnulib] checking for overflow

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> And for some not-so-large values of N, such as 60000, ls will allocate
> 700 MB of memory. Which also allows some kind of denial-of-service attack.

That bug was fixed too (in a different way).

> For multiplication by 2: can we rely on malloc() failing for sizes between
> 2 GB and 4 GB?

No.  For example, on 32-bit Solaris 8 sparc, malloc (SIZE_MAX / 2 + 1)
can succeed.

I suppose we could write a malloc wrapper that always fails for
arguments greater than SIZE_MAX / 2, but that sounds a bit unfriendly
in general.