Range checking on config file

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Jan 2 12:18:16 UTC 2018


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> > I'm divided in my mind about whether to fix this.  It's not really right, ...
> 
> Do we have a good place to document it?

The internals tour, maybe.

> It's possible that the Bison parser does range checks and doesn't allow the 
> nasty case.

It doesn't.  I know that code quite well, and I just re-checked.
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