From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ptrdiff_t misuse [was :Re: (empty)] Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:23:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83lij66yq9.fsf@gnu.org> <4FEDB953.1010800@yandex.ru> <4FEEA720.2040405@cs.ucla.edu> <838vf56yzu.fsf@gnu.org> <4FEEFB48.2020607@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341066239 29322 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2012 14:23:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 30 16:23:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Skyab-0008DM-GX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:23:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51430 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Skyab-0006s4-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:23:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkyaY-0006rn-Ho for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkyaW-0006go-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:23:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:62683) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkyaU-0006gW-AF; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:23:50 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09FxKFY/2dsb2JhbABEDrQDgQiCFQEBBAFWIxALNBIUGA0kLIdwBboJkEQDnjmEeoFYgjBV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="192411311" Original-Received: from 69-196-161-88.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([69.196.161.88]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 30 Jun 2012 10:23:48 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 30604AE224; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:23:48 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4FEEFB48.2020607@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 30 Jun 2012 08:12:40 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:151326 Archived-At: >> But since this will _never_ happen in real life > Surely this overflow can happen in real life, by putting the > proper strings into a text file that someone visits, which is > the sort of thing that a trickster would do. If it just causes a minor misbehavior, I'm not worried, Stefan