Handle cases where passing an overly long size could cause UB due to integer overflow #54

Job	Run time
macos (macos-14, Debug)	2m 8s
macos (macos-15, Debug)	2m 47s
macos (macos-15, Release)	2m 27s
windows (windows-2025)	19m 2s
ubuntu-latest	3m 10s
windows (windows-2022)	17m 39s
linux (ubuntu:24.04, Debug, g++, 14)	1m 59s
linux (ubuntu:20.04, Debug, g++, 14)	2m 12s
linux (debian:experimental, Debug, g++, 14)	2m 9s
linux (fedora:39, Debug, g++, 14)	2m 18s
linux (debian:testing, Debug, g++, 14)	1m 57s
linux (fedora:40, Debug, g++, 14)	1m 52s
linux (debian:bookworm, Debug, g++, 14)	2m 6s
linux (fedora:41, Debug, g++, 14)	1m 53s
linux (debian:bookworm, clang++, 17, clang)	2m 0s
linux (debian:bullseye, Debug, g++, 14)	1m 54s
linux (ubuntu:22.04, Debug, g++, 14)	1m 57s
linux (debian:bookworm, Release)	59s
linux (debian:bookworm, 17)	2m 10s
linux (debian:bookworm, 20)	2m 34s
linux (debian:bookworm, clang++, clang)	1m 52s
linux (debian:testing, clang++, clang, -Wno-c++20-extensions)	2m 7s
linux (debian:experimental, clang++, clang, -Wno-c++20-extensions)	2m 13s
linux (debian:bookworm, clang++, 17, clang, std::string_view)	2m 3s
linux (debian:bookworm, clang++, 20, clang)	2m 29s
	1h 25m 57s

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