[tor-bugs] #13635 [Tor]: Time to retire SIZE_T_CEILING?

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#13635: Time to retire SIZE_T_CEILING?
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     Reporter:  nickm   |      Owner:
         Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal  |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.6.x-final
    Component:  Tor     |    Version:
   Resolution:          |   Keywords:
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Comment (by cypherpunks):

 > On the other hand, if malloc _would_ give you that much memory, then who
 are we to argue with it?

 What part of code will to request and will to fill so much of memory at
 once? It's bug if code tries to decode stuff or to read so much bytes from
 file at once. Those asserts never shoots to sane code.

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