[crististm]

Actually, this method counts on it.

What I find interesting are the trade-offs: machine vs explicit integer wrap-around and buffers with maximum ~size(int)/2 vs ~size(int).

[falcolas]

Got it. Modular arithmetic was the term I was looking for to resolve this.

    (0 - (2^32 - 1)) % 2^32 = 1