> size_t is guaranteed only to be at least 16 bits according to the
standard

> Have you ever seen libcurl run on a system with size_t being 16 bit?

Well, no. Still, some of those systems are pretty obscure.

This is what you need:

if (CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE > (size_t) -1)
{
    // potential buffer overflow
}

Richard

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