Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Largest Reference algorithm can produce invalid values (#2112)

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Tue, 11 December 2018 21:38 UTC

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#1904 turns 0 into 2*MaxEntries (the only valid value that encoding could produce).  Basically it doesn't allow underflow at all.

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