From 7555c5d67d4ef3de9b908d10ca25efae86e8e6b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jmestwa-coder <jmestwa@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:00:32 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] add DCHECK bounds checks to operator[]

---
 re2/pod_array.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/re2/pod_array.h b/re2/pod_array.h
index f234e976f..96429df2c 100644
--- a/re2/pod_array.h
+++ b/re2/pod_array.h
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 #include <memory>
 #include <type_traits>
 
+#include "absl/log/absl_check.h"
+
 namespace re2 {
 
 template <typename T>
@@ -30,6 +32,8 @@ class PODArray {
   }
 
   T& operator[](int pos) const {
+    ABSL_DCHECK_GE(pos, 0);
+    ABSL_DCHECK_LT(pos, size());
     return ptr_[pos];
   }