diff --git a/internal/ui/printer.go b/internal/ui/printer.go
index ea1ee96..b07418e 100644
--- a/internal/ui/printer.go
+++ b/internal/ui/printer.go
@@ -247,20 +247,23 @@ func (p *Printer) renderSideBySide(a, b string) {
 	}
 
 	sep := " │ "
+	// Clamp once so the divider's strings.Repeat shares truncPad's bound; an
+	// unclamped huge Width would panic there with "makeslice: len out of range".
+	width := min(p.Width, maxColWidth)
 	// Header and divider must share the exact column geometry of the data
 	// rows: each side is `width` columns, joined by sep (" │ "). The divider
 	// mirrors sep as "─┼─" so the ┼ lands directly under every │.
 	// Pad the header text manually (not via %-*s) so it stays correct even
 	// when paint wraps it in ANSI escapes, which %-*s would miscount.
 	fmt.Fprintf(p.Out, "  %s%s%s\n", //nolint:errcheck
-		p.paint(th.Meta, truncPad("current", p.Width)),
+		p.paint(th.Meta, truncPad("current", width)),
 		sep,
 		p.paint(th.Meta, "proposed"))
 	fmt.Fprintf(p.Out, "  %s\n", p.paint(th.Meta, //nolint:errcheck
-		strings.Repeat("─", p.Width)+"─┼─"+strings.Repeat("─", p.Width)))
+		strings.Repeat("─", width)+"─┼─"+strings.Repeat("─", width)))
 	for _, r := range rows {
-		left := truncPad(r.l, p.Width)
-		right := truncPad(r.r, p.Width)
+		left := truncPad(r.l, width)
+		right := truncPad(r.r, width)
 		if r.lc != (Style{}) {
 			left = p.paint(r.lc, left)
 		}
@@ -371,13 +374,21 @@ func withTypeName(src, name string) string {
 	return first + "\n" + rest
 }
 
+// maxColWidth caps the per-side column width. It is far wider than any real
+// terminal and keeps padding allocations bounded: an unclamped huge width
+// (e.g. -width=1<<62) would make FillRight/strings.Repeat attempt a
+// multi-gigabyte allocation and panic with "makeslice: len out of range".
+const maxColWidth = 1 << 16
+
 // truncPad fits s into exactly w display cells: right-padded with spaces when
 // shorter, or truncated with a trailing "…" when longer. Width is measured in
 // terminal cells via runewidth, so CJK and other wide runes count as two.
+// Widths above maxColWidth are clamped.
 func truncPad(s string, w int) string {
 	if w <= 0 {
 		return ""
 	}
+	w = min(w, maxColWidth)
 	// expand tabs to 4 spaces for stable columns
 	s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "\t", "    ")
 	// runewidth.Truncate fits s into w cells, appending "…" (and reserving its
diff --git a/internal/ui/unicode_test.go b/internal/ui/unicode_test.go
index 6ddd565..9b697b5 100644
--- a/internal/ui/unicode_test.go
+++ b/internal/ui/unicode_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package ui
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
+	"math"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
@@ -34,6 +36,26 @@ func TestTruncPadWideRunes(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, "世界…", truncPad("世界世", 5))
 }
 
+// truncPad must be total: an absurd width (e.g. a user-supplied
+// -width=4611686018427387904) must clamp instead of panicking with
+// "makeslice: len out of range" inside FillRight. Found by fuzzing
+// (ClusterFuzzLite, #99); the pre-#94 hand-rolled loop panicked identically.
+func TestTruncPadHugeWidth(t *testing.T) {
+	res := truncPad("x", math.MaxInt)
+	assert.Equal(t, maxColWidth, len(res), "pads to the clamped maximum")
+	assert.Equal(t, "x", res[:1])
+}
+
+// The side-by-side divider (strings.Repeat) must survive a huge Width too.
+func TestRenderSideBySideHugeWidth(t *testing.T) {
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	p := &Printer{Out: &buf, Width: math.MaxInt}
+
+	assert.NotPanics(t, func() {
+		p.renderSideBySide("a\nb", "a\nc")
+	})
+}
+
 func TestIndent(t *testing.T) {
 	// Without trailing newline
 	assert.Equal(t, "  a\n  b", indent("a\nb", "  "))