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wahern
· 2026-10-11 Sun 09:13 UTC ·
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Not sure I agree with this pattern for strings, but if you're gonna multiply for an allocation like that and are concerned about consistent idioms, use calloc or [non-standard] mallocarray, which will check the multiplication for overflow.