From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bindat can exhaust memory when unpacking to vector
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:34:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZTdJYDYzBdSo+hCv@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5s9m8ri.fsf@iki.fi>
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:36:01PM +0300, Petteri Hintsanen wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
[...]
> > Can you argue why this should be considered a problem for Emacs to
> > solve, and not a cockpit error on the part of the Lisp program that
> > makes such calls?
>
> No, not really. Now when I think about it, it is fairly obvious that
> the programmer should realize this when using such low level mechanism
> as Bindat.
OTOH, a maximum length of something might be thought as a (n optional)
part of a type description. Types are predicates.
As could be a set of bounds for a numerical type. Perhaps there's an
extension opportunity for bindat.
Cheers
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t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-24 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-22 19:36 Bindat can exhaust memory when unpacking to vector Petteri Hintsanen
2023-10-23 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-23 19:36 ` Petteri Hintsanen
2023-10-24 4:34 ` tomas [this message]
2023-11-12 19:11 ` Petteri Hintsanen
2023-11-04 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-04 8:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-03-10 21:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-03-19 20:09 ` Petteri Hintsanen
2024-03-19 21:08 ` Stefan Monnier
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