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Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358)
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358) |
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Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:22:26 -0400 |
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> Yes, but the real problem is to determine whether the code needs any
> changes at all. For that, one must understand the control flow, and
> figure out whether pointers to buffer text are used across malloc
> calls without any updates.
That is true. But this can find the functions that need to be checked,
because they make buffer pointers and they indirectly call malloc.
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- Re: When should ralloc.c be used?, (continued)
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used?, Richard Stallman, 2016/10/29
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/29
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used?, Richard Stallman, 2016/10/29
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/29
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used?, Richard Stallman, 2016/10/30
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used?, Alp Aker, 2016/10/30
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used?, Richard Stallman, 2016/10/30
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/30
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358), Richard Stallman, 2016/10/24
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/25
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358),
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358), Perry E. Metzger, 2016/10/25
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/25
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358), Richard Stallman, 2016/10/26
- Re: When should ralloc.c be used?, Stefan Monnier, 2016/10/24