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Re:Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of... by zelphirkalt on Monday September 22, 2025 @05:43AM (#45331078)
Many other languages automatically switch to a big integer number type, or have arbitrary size integers anyway.
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Re:Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of... by account42 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:18AM (#45347385)
Which is a great way to turn an overflow into a denial of service as suddenly algorithms that were optimized for simple integer arithmetic slow to a crawl.
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