GCC prints the following warning when compiling the new code: lib/xmalloc.c: In function 'xpalloc': lib/xmalloc.c:132:64: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'long unsigned int' and 'idx_t' {aka 'long int'} [-Wsign-compare] 132 | = ((INT_MULTIPLY_WRAPV (n, item_size, &nbytes) || SIZE_MAX < nbytes) If I understand the error message correctly, it is because 'nbytes' is a signed type while SIZE_MAX is unsigned. Does the comparison make any sense, by the way? Thanks for investigating, Marc