[vlc-devel] [PATCH] modules: use 16-bit ints for option counts

[Lyndon Brown]

On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 20:54 +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le keskiviikkona 30. syyskuuta 2020, 20.05.51 EEST Lyndon Brown a
> écrit :
> > As for the enhancement of adding a limit to the number of items a
> > plugin can generate before we start rejecting them and giving an
> > error,
> > I just remain a little uncertain about your position.
> 
> It's useless complexity. Broken modules can crash the process in so
> many ways 
> that there's no point adding defensive programming that will
> potentially hide 
> bugs and make debugging harder.

Ok. :)