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[avogel@…]

In program_options, an option with e.g. value<std::uint32_t>() will accept negative arguments. A positional will not work without preceding -- because the minus sign is treated as the option character, though. So it's:

mycommand --foo-level -1

or

mycommand --foo-level=-1

or

mycommand -- -1

Assuming foo-level takes a std::uint32_t (and is the first positional option for the latter example), this will be accepted and converted to 4294967295 (aka UINT32_MAX). Likewise,

mycommand --foo-level -4294967196

will result in a value of 100. There's a workaround with a custom validator discussed at:

​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36800596/disallow-negative-argument-for-unsigned-value-with-boostprogram-options

But this should not be necessary IMO.

[arachni_name <arachni@…>]

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