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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 37872] - [io] Redundant parameter check in ByteArrayOutputStream

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scolebourne@joda.org changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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------- Additional Comments From scolebourne@joda.org  2006-01-01 17:54 -------
In theory this is redundant, however in practice it is not.

If off and len are both very large numbers, then (off + len) can wrap around to
become negative. (This is a flaw in the Java language.) This test handles this
(unlikely) case.

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