From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18410: Use SAFE_ALLOCA etc. to avoid unbounded stack allocation. Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:49:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5409536B.5090201@cs.ucla.edu> <540C0741.8090900@cs.ucla.edu> <83bnqrcq7u.fsf@gnu.org> <540CC106.8040705@cs.ucla.edu> <83vboybzyv.fsf@gnu.org> <83lhptaq6i.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410273365 24930 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2014 14:36:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 14:36:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 18410@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 09 16:35:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRMWO-0002M0-2W for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:35:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRMWN-0006Sh-Nu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:35:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41066) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRMVq-00065k-Ja for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRMLV-0003Uz-RO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:24:45 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43015) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRLo3-0000GH-9E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XRLo2-0002Zd-Mg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:50:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:50:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18410 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 18410-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18410.14102705849860 (code B ref 18410); Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18410) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Sep 2014 13:49:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34579 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XRLnk-0002Yy-GF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:49:44 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:35378) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XRLni-0002Yq-8I for 18410@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:49:42 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id s89DnWGS014972; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 09:49:32 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 45D9660787; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 09:49:32 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83lhptaq6i.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:17:41 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5059=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9378 : core <5059> : inlines <1267> : streams <1285457> : uri <1812045> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:93191 Archived-At: > Actually, we are in violent agreement. The point I was making is that > given that we want to check for stack overflow, we don't need 2 such > checks. I didn't mean at all to say that we should be less careful > about avoiding stack overflows. Good. I just wanted to clarify since the "moot discussion" was about increasing MAX_ALLOCA, which would increase the risk of stack overflow. Stefan