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Re: PR22397, BFD internal error when message locale isn't C


On Nov 05 2017, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:

> While an abort after storing out of bounds by one to an array in our
> caller is probably OK in practice, it's better to check before storing.

Actually, a clever compiler would have removed the abort, because
accessing the array index would have asserted that the index is in
bounds.

Andreas.

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