Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I think it does apply, though the reasoning in the commit message of > "this is OK because 'left' is large enough" becomes a lot more > hand-wavy. The patch is not making anything _worse_, certainly, but the > fact of the matter is that "left" still might not be big enough, if it > is not a size_t. True; it does not make much sense without the actual size_t conversion, I would think.