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Summary

Adds three additional SHA-256 test vectors from NIST FIPS 180-4 to tests/test_utils.c, strengthening confidence in the correctness of the freestanding SHA-256 implementation across all input sizes.

Changes

tests/test_utils.c — extended test_sha256() with:

  1. 56-byte padding-boundary vector"abcdbcdecdefdefgefghfghighijhijkijkljklmklmnlmnomnopnopq" (56 bytes), which crosses the SHA-256 padding boundary. Expected: 248d6a61...db06c1

  2. 112-byte two-block vector — input spanning two full 512-bit processing blocks. Expected: cf5b16a7...fee9d1

  3. 1,000,000 × 'a' via incremental API — 1000 calls of 1000 bytes each via l_sha256_update, exercising the incremental API with a very large input. Expected: cdc76e5c...2cd0

All 32 bytes of each expected hash are verified via l_memcmp.

Motivation

The existing tests only covered the empty string and "abc" (both fit in a single 512-bit block). These new vectors exercise inputs that require a second padding block, multi-block processing, and large incremental input.

Test Status

✅ Full ./Taskfile test passes on Linux x86_64:

Testing l_sha256...
  [OK] sha256 nist 56-byte vector
  [OK] sha256 nist 112-byte vector
  [OK] sha256 nist 1M-a incremental
  L_Sha256 tests: PASSED

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When a negative value is passed as a dynamic width via %*d (and
friends), the spec says to treat it as a left-justify flag and a
positive width. The previous code did:

    width = -width;

If the caller passes INT_MIN, negating it is undefined behaviour in
C (signed integer overflow). On x86 the result wraps back to
INT_MIN, which is still negative, and the subsequent pad calculation
overflows too — making the return value wrap to a large negative
number.

Fix: clamp INT_MIN to INT_MAX before negation, so the output is
well-defined (content printed left-justified, return value ==
INT_MAX). Add a test that exercises this path.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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