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by ajsnigrutin 1486 days ago
Sure, until someone sets the prefix to 100MB large, and sends zero bytes of data :)
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Which would be a lot easier to catch by bounds checks in the language / data types used / sanitizers / fuzzers / static analysis than cases like this where you can have two implementations seemingly successfully parse the data but disagree on the result.