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From: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Racket 8 and store references (was [security] Chunked store references in .zo files in Racket 8 #47614)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 21:20:48 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2104062117140.8138@marsh.hcoop.net> (raw)

On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Mark H Weaver wrote:

> Anyway, I doubt that imposing such a limitation would adequately solve
> the problem here of chunked references in Racket 8, because I suspect
> that Racket 8 could split store references at arbitrary points in the
> string.  I doubt that we can safely assume that the hash component of
> store references will be stored contiguously in *.zo files.

Mark and everyone,

I wanted to spin off a subthread on guix-devel, to make you aware of 
another problem that we've run into with reference in .zo getting mangled: 
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47180

Best,
Jack


             reply	other threads:[~2021-04-07  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-07  1:20 Jack Hill [this message]
2021-04-07  1:38 ` Racket 8 and store references (was [security] Chunked store references in .zo files in Racket 8 #47614) Philip McGrath

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