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.
prev 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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