cypherpunks authored Dec 15, 2015 and Nick Mathewson committed Dec 15, 2015

On FreeBSD backtrace(3) uses size_t instead of int (as glibc does). This
causes integer precision loss errors when we used int to store its
results.

The issue is fixed by using size_t to store the results of backtrace(3).

The manual page of glibc does not mention that backtrace(3) returns
negative values. Therefore, no unsigned integer wrapping occurs when its
result is stored in an unsigned data type.