On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 5:26 PM Carlo Arenas <care...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 12:45 PM Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > > ... > using idx_t instead of size_t should be fine (if only halves the max > size of the objects managed), but I am concerned that assuming > PCRE2_SIZE_MAX is always equivalent to SIZE_MAX (as done in patch 4) > might be risky (at least without a comment), and considering that is > part of the API anyway might be better if kept as PCRE2_SIZE_MAX IMHO.
GNU Hurd may not have SIZE_MAX defined. The Hurd folks {sometimes|often} want developers to make a runtime call for the limit. See docs like https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/File-Minimums.html and https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/limits.h.html. Jeff