https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77941
--- Comment #9 from Janne Blomqvist <jb at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Steve Kargl from comment #7) > I suppose one could always check that a length type parameter > less than some max integer based on 32-bit vs 64-bit system, > but that would pessimize all uses of strings as this would > need to be a runtime check. IMHO we shouldn't do runtime checks for this. Particularly now that we support 64-bit string lengths on 64-bit targets (which is what more or less everybody doing real work will be using), outside of artificial examples we're never going to hit the limit.
