From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9412: sprintf-related integer and memory overflow issues Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:53:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E5D6772.7060208@cs.ucla.edu> <87vcteib8y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E5DCE9B.9060903@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314809743 19210 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2011 16:55:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:55:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9412@debbugs.gnu.org, Chong Yidong To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 31 18:55:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyo4g-00065f-C0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:55:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54078 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyo4f-000067-D1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:55:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54038) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyo4K-0007ik-6l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyo4D-0000nH-4p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43665) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyo4C-0000l4-S3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyo70-00074x-3u; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:58:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Dan Nicolaescu Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:58:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9412 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 9412-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9412.131480985427172 (code B ref 9412); Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9412) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Aug 2011 16:57:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyo6X-00074C-7Z for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:57:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyo6O-00073y-1W for 9412@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyo30-0003Ne-Kb; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:53:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E5DCE9B.9060903@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:03:07 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:58:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:50484 Archived-At: Paul Eggert 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.