Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] bsearch: prevent overflow when computing middle comparison element

Thiago Farina
2009-11-13T15:03:07Z

Hi Rusty,

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:30:25 am André Goddard Rosa wrote:
>> It's really difficult to occur in practice because the sum of the lower
>> and higher limits must overflow an int variable, but it can occur when
>> working with large arrays. We'd better safe than sorry by avoiding this
>> overflow situation when computing the middle element for comparison.
>
> I applied all these, after testing.  In future would have been nice for you
> to have posted a test patch so I didn't have make my own...

Where did you apply this patch?