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<a href="https://gitlab.com/hare1712" style="color: #1068bf;">Hannes Reinecke</a>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #303030; margin: 0 0 16px;" align="initial">Problem is that we need to check both, as either the pointer could be NULL, or the length could be '0'.
And one probably would need to do an audit to check if both are always in sync.
(Or add an 'assert' here :-)</p>
<p dir="auto" style="color: #303030; margin: 0 0 16px;" align="initial">Nit: there is one place in</p>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #303030; margin: 0;" align="initial">is there a convention what the length of an unallocated pointer should be? -1 or 0?</p>
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