Re: [Nano-devel] solving a history bug in nano [patch]

[alpha]

On Mon, 30 May 2016 09:20:24 +0200
Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> try instead of (size_t)-1 the values 100, 255, 32000, 65535. If
> none of those segfault, then at least we have a workaround: nobody
> is going to type sixty-five thousand characters to search for.

No one will ever need more than 640k of memory!

The value might be converted to a signed int somewhere inside find_history. 
Perhaps use the largest value possible that can never be negative?

#define SIZE_T_HALF_MAX ((~(size_t)0)>>1)