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tetex-bin package

  1. Bug #26650
  2. Comment #45

Comment 45 for bug 26650

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:53:58 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <email address hidden>
To: Martin Pitt <email address hidden>
Cc: Frank =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FCster?= <email address hidden>,
  <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#342292: Fwd: Re: [vendor-sec] xpdf update - patch wrong?

* Martin Pitt:

> - For invalid (big) positive values of nObjs which, when multiplied with nObjs
> overflow an int, we have two cases:

But neither ISO C nor GNU C make any promises regarding this case.
Overflow is undefined, period.

You can pass -fwrapv to gcc if you want modulo arithmetic for ints.
In general, this decreases code quality, that's why it's not the
default.