--- !ditz.rubyforge.org,2008-03-06/issue 
title: safeguard against creating too long strings
desc: |-
  Current implementation has multiple limitations which prevent very long
  strings (but still shorter than the 4G spec limit) from always working.
  
  The x-UTF-8 encoded string is limited by a 4G (perhaps 2G) byte size limit.
  It may not be possible to e.g. case convert a string near this byte limit
  if the converted string contains codepoints with a longer UTF-8 encoding.
  
  Current C typing shortcomings (e.g. using "int" instead of an unsigned type
  for indexing strings) may cause a 2G byte (and char) limit to strings.
  
  A basic safeguard would be to refuse interning strings longer than a
  certain limit.
type: :task
component: duk
release: v0.8
reporter: sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
status: :closed
disposition: :fixed
creation_time: 2013-03-12 22:15:03.269558 Z
references: []

id: 8d3bab8af11e60088d2310751c8ac63a46a4c819
log_events: 
- - 2013-03-12 22:15:03.456796 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - created
  - ""
- - 2013-08-27 20:39:36.194908 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - assigned to release v0.7 from v0.6
  - ""
- - 2013-10-24 00:43:53.035269 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - assigned to release v0.8 from v0.7
  - ""
- - 2013-11-09 14:54:07.911753 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - commented
  - Also need to ensure that concatenation results don't overflow length.
- - 2013-12-12 23:30:20.237127 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - closed with disposition fixed
  - ""