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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k•org>
Cc: kusmabite@gmail•com, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee•org>, "Koch\,
	Rick \(Subcontractor\)" <Rick.Koch@tbe•com>,
	Git List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:45:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqd2p8udtl.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y57wnf03.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 21 Aug 2013 01:01:32 +0200")

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k•org> writes:

> Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail•com> writes:
>
>> I don't see how it's undefined. It's using the memory that 'pos'
>> *points to* that is undefined, no? The difference between 'pos' and
>> 'str' should still be the same, it's not like realloc somehow
>> magically updates 'pos'...
>
> It does.  Think of segmented architectures, where freeing a pointer
> invalidates its segment, so that even loading the value of the pointer
> traps.  Probably no such architecture is in use any more, though.

I love seeing that we have somebody who knows and can explain these
dark corners of ANSI C standard ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-20 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-19 17:09 CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4 Koch, Rick (Subcontractor)
2013-08-19 20:03 ` Philip Oakley
2013-08-19 20:40   ` Jeff King
2013-08-19 20:46     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-19 20:52       ` Johan Herland
     [not found]   ` <85C8141E5DAD94428A121F706995A31F010F116FDADE@MX1.net.tbe.com>
2013-08-19 21:46     ` Philip Oakley
2013-08-23 19:51       ` CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4 (fetch.c L588) Philip Oakley
2013-08-19 22:55   ` CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4 Philip Oakley
2013-08-19 23:15     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-20 14:33       ` Jeff King
2013-08-20 18:44       ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-20 20:34         ` René Scharfe
2013-08-20 22:28           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-20 22:26         ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-20 23:01           ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-20 23:45             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-08-21  0:01             ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-19 21:36 ` Stefan Beller

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