>  > Would it be too much hand-holding to put in the manpage that to avoid 
> potential
>  > freeezero() integer overflow,
>  > it may be useful to run freezero() as freezero((size_t)nmemb * 
> (size_t)size);
> 
>  Wow, Those casts make it very clear you don't understand C, if you do
>  that kind of stuff elsewhere you are introducing problems.

If nmemb or size are of a type greater than size_t, those casts serve only one
purpose -- truncating the high bits before performing multiply, which results in
an incorrect size.



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