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by kazinator 12 days ago
Or you could just have the standard have a "Conformance Limits" section where it says something similar to "Every implementation shall support a length field value of at least 9223372036854775807, with an unlimited number of leading zeros".

In other words, values beyond that are not forbidden by the spec, but are outside of the conformance requirements. It is a quality of implementation issue whether a given implementation handles more than required.

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That the spec is lenient and the conformance test strict makes ot only worse.