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Pretty critical PR for rust-msi is getting held up because the maintainer understands the intent but not why this works (github.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/rust@programming.dev

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Not to throw shade, just wishing that somebody here can understand. Whenever an input is reasonably long, an analyzing function will crash, and this PR aims to fix that with a mechanism that contradicts the maintainer's understanding while a similar C implementation does not need this fix. ~~Clearly, the maintainer has not heard a certain programming mantra...~~

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[-] gedhrel@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Which mantra is that? The ellipsis doesn't offer a clue.