The specification doesn't say how to handle negative values in lengths. I propose that it should be handeled as an error, but this needs to be specified, otherwise parsers will disagree on how to handle this case.
I checked a couple of C/C++ libraries, and they seem to silently cast the value to a size_t and allocating memory, resulting in either crashes or errors. The missing specification seems to have resulted in unsafe implementations.
The specification doesn't say how to handle negative values in lengths. I propose that it should be handeled as an error, but this needs to be specified, otherwise parsers will disagree on how to handle this case.
I checked a couple of C/C++ libraries, and they seem to silently cast the value to a size_t and allocating memory, resulting in either crashes or errors. The missing specification seems to have resulted in unsafe implementations.