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Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8's readInt does no bounds checking

I think it should be failing with Nothing if given a string of digits that's too long.

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Prelude> :m +Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 
Prelude Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8> readInt (pack "99999999999999999999")
Just (7766279631452241919,LPS [])
Edited by Ian Lynagh -
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