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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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

A "mantra" more programmers should have is to fix the cause of the issue, and not just the symptoms. You have to understand what the problem is to be able to fix it.