[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #61300] integer range might exceed upper limit

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #22, bug #61300 (project octave):

IIUC, an array can't have more elements than the maximum of `octave_idx_type`.
`octave_idx_type` is either `int64_t` or `int32_t` depending on the platform.
The same should probably be valid for ranges. So, the assignment in comment
#20 should be save.

IIUC, in your examples in comment #21, the sum `m_limit.value () -
m_base.value () + m_increment.value ()` overflows. Would that be different if
the result would be cast to `int64_t`?

We might want to detect or avoid that overflow. But that is a different issue
imho.


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