greater than 2^31-1, then the result will be huge. This is unlikely,
as we don't support that many sections, but out of an abundace of
caution cast to size_t so the multiplication won't overflow
mysteriously when size_t is larger than 32-bits. The resulting code
may be a smidge larger, but this isn't super-space critical code.
CID: 1194216, 1194217, 1194222, 1194223, 1265018, 1265019,1265020,
1265021
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