I generally agree and gave you an upvote. The macros up top were hard for me to grok too, mostly I was reading it thinking, "why isn't this just a cast" and it turns out is could be! And I get this is the security mailing list, but it's 32-bit PPC, and they took days to really get to it. FWIW I think Ariel was being overly cautious; it's hard to see how this could be a significant security issue, and it feels counterproductive to punish him for being cautious. I can kind of see both sides, but I just can't get over doing all the work Ariel did and only getting a "Reported by" credit. His feelings are justified IMO.