From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:22:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87twe6sx2g.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <87eg51ng4r.fsf_-_@users.sourceforge.net> <87k2djwumn.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <83h98nidvd.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg3rvtsf.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <83k2dihpm9.fsf@gnu.org> <8760p2wzgj.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <838ttyhhzu.fsf@gnu.org> <871szqwu51.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <831szqhbc2.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1itt79z.fsf_-_@users.sourceforge.net> <7baa18d4-2b09-caa8-005e-29008a383ad1@cs.ucla.edu> <83mvhwrgd5.fsf@gnu.org> <8539f38f-9a11-44c3-4de7-bb974c96206c@cs.ucla.edu> <83d1iq5ib1.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3753c8j.fsf@gnu.org> <83pomowh1f.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477531380 26170 195.159.176.226 (27 Oct 2016 01:23:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 01:23:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 03:22:50 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bzZOt-0003pb-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 03:22:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzZOv-0006La-38 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:22:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzZOp-0006LH-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:22:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzZOo-0005yS-9H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:22:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzZOl-0005xB-Uz; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bzZOk-0000FS-HA; Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:22:26 -0400 In-reply-to: <83pomowh1f.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:05:16 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208860 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Yes, but the real problem is to determine whether the code needs any > changes at all. For that, one must understand the control flow, and > figure out whether pointers to buffer text are used across malloc > calls without any updates. That is true. But this can find the functions that need to be checked, because they make buffer pointers and they indirectly call malloc. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.