[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | Two integer overflows in priority.c (#679)

[Development of GNU's TLS library]

To convince you :-) ...

The macro contained a loop over all items beginning at the current position of the main loop. (And I can not see how a compiler could optimize that out.)

Example: With N being `priority_cache->protocol.num_priorities`, the 'macro loop's body will be executed N+(N-1)+(N-2)+... times. This is sum(1..N) which is (N^2+N)/2.

The new approach uses exactly N executions of the loop body.

With N=10 this is 55 against 10.

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