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Pretty critical PR for rust-msi is getting held up because the maintainer understands the intent but not why this works (github.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not to throw shade, just wishing that somebody here can understand. Whenever an input is reasonably long, an analyzing function will crash, and this PR aims to fix that with a mechanism that contradicts the maintainer's understanding while a similar C implementation does not need this fix. ~~Clearly, the maintainer has not heard a certain programming mantra...~~

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

while a similar C implementation does not need this fix

No, that implementation also needs the fix. It's just that it was never properly tested, so they thought it was working correctly.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They tested the same strings on that implementation., though judging by the recent comments someone’s found something.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

They tested the same strings on that implementation

The strings were the same, but not the implementation. They were testing the decoding of the strings, but the C function they were looking at was the one for encoding them. The decoding function was correct but what it read didn't match the encoding one.

though judging by the recent comments someone’s found something.

Yeah, that's me :)