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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 9412@debbugs.gnu.org, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Subject: bug#9412: sprintf-related integer and memory overflow issues
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:53:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxqty8x4j4t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E5DCE9B.9060903@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:03:07 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> On 08/30/11 19:08, Chong Yidong wrote:
>

>> I seem to recall that the reason we don't use snprintf is that
>> it's not available on all the platforms that Emacs supports.
>
> Although that used to be true, I expect that platforms lacking
> snprintf (e.g., Solaris 2.5.1, IRIX 5.3, OSF/1 4.0) are no longer of
> practical importance as Emacs porting targets.

FWIW, we removed support in emacs for those 3 OSes a few years ago. 





      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-31 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-30 22:42 bug#9412: sprintf-related integer and memory overflow issues Paul Eggert
2011-08-31  2:08 ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-31  6:03   ` Paul Eggert
2011-08-31 16:14     ` Chong Yidong
2011-08-31 22:21       ` Paul Eggert
2011-09-01  2:42         ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-01  5:44           ` Paul Eggert
2011-08-31 16:53     ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]

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