Parsing integers is a frequent requirement, and what constitutes a valid input varies a lot. std.fmt.parseInt currently does a lot more work than is typically needed/desired, and supports formats that ...

A recent Hacker News post looked at the reverse engineering of TikTok’s JavaScript virtual machine (VM). Many commenters assumed the VM was malicious, designed for invasive tracking or surveillance.

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I just want to note that #19624 would have caught the maxVal overflow in ParseUint and changed it from a silent-corruption bug to a panic with a clear trace. It would also have caught the bad int -> ...