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by Spivak 609 days ago
I'm sure it's not literally no one but I bet the percent of additions that have explicit checks for overflow is for all practical purposes indistinguishable from 0.
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Lots of secure code checks for overflow

    fillBufferWithData(buffer, data, offset, size)
You want to know that offset + size don't wrap past 32bits (or 64) and end up with nonsense and a security vulnerability.