Re: valid_pointer_p

[Kim F. Storm]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Cc: address@hidden
>> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
>> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:01:26 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > If no one else cares about this, I will at least write the code to
>> > DTRT on Windows.  
>> 
>> Please do.
>
> Done.
>
> Btw, you always try to validate a 16-byte region starting at the
> address P, which might give a false positive if the object is actually
> smaller and happens to be at the end of an allocated page which is
> followed by a page that we cannot access.  Am I missing something?

I validate a 16 area since the pointer is typically something
"vector-like" where the code that access/print that object will look
at data following the immedate byte/word that the pointer addresses.

So I made the "safe choice" of checking 16 bytes.

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