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On Wednesday, 21 May 2025 at 18:19:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>An unsigned type is of less utility in a language like Java that is not a systems programming language (trying to make a memory allocator with no unsigned types is going to wind up pretty ugly).
Just found: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/malloc.3.html
>Attempting to allocate more than PTRDIFF_MAX bytes is considered an error, as an object that large could cause later pointer subtraction to overflow.
malloc() and related functions rejected sizes greater than PTRDIFF_MAX starting in glibc 2.30.
