gcc compiles `p + length < p' into 'length < 0' since pointer overflow is undefined behavior in C. This breaks the check against a large `length'.
Use `length > pend - p' instead.
There's no need to check `length < 0' since `length' is from length_decode() and should be non-negative.
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Try the simplified code.
void bar(void);
void foo(unsigned char *p, int length)
{
if (p + length < p)
bar();
}
$ gcc -S -o - t.c -O2
...
foo:
.LFB0:
.cfi_startproc
testl %esi, %esi
js .L4
rep
ret
.L4:
jmp bar
.cfi_endproc
Clearly `p' is not used at all.
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