Re: JSON/YAML/TOML/etc. parsing performance

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I'd prefer to have such tests inside 'insert' and its subroutines, or
> to tweak the argument passed to 'insert' to have the existing checks
> catch the problem.  Can we do that, please?  It doesn't feel right to
> me to have this kind of checks in application C code.

There is no universal C integer type, so this doesn't sound doable in general. 
Even intmax_t is not wide enough, as it doesn't subsume uintmax_t. And I 
wouldn't want APIs to switch to intmax_t or uintmax_t merely because some 
library's types don't match ours; the responsibility for passing arguments 
correctly and for checking for any out-of-range values belongs to the glue code, 
not to Emacs internals.