From: george anzinger [off-list ref]
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 00:25:46 -0700
I understand the issue. The question is what is the
result. Bogus numbers do.. what? Does the kernel crash or
does the user think strange things while every thing just
keeps on working?
It's a quality of implementation issue.
It is just one example of a place where we use these kinds
of assumptions to index tables and the like.