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AnimalMuppet 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: No way to parse integers in C (2022)

Unless you're exposing it to the internet, ever, in the entire future history of the program. Then you kind of have to, in one form or another.

Someone 4 months ago [–]

You have to, but you probably shouldn’t do it by trying to add the inputs. That opens a door for DDOS attacks.

Returning an error on inputs that are too long (for some definition of it) is the way to go.

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