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RE: Binutils 2.19.1 Released (trying to build for AVR)
- From: "Egbert Jan van den Bussche" <egbert at vandenbussche dot nl>
- To: "'Weddington, Eric'" <Eric dot Weddington at atmel dot com>, "'Dave Korn'" <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- Cc: <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:27:30 +0200
- Subject: RE: Binutils 2.19.1 Released (trying to build for AVR)
It is a very unimportant problem anyway and has not really to do with the
source being plainly wrong. It is just the possible security issue that is
now flagged more prominently. I could not find a direct reference to
binutils when googling for the error message though... I found several other
packages that were affected and there was suggested to add the format
specifier. Replacing the sprintf by a strcpy is maybe a much neater
solution. Why using sprintf anyway if you want to do just a string copy.
Egbert Jan
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: binutils-owner@sourceware.org
> [mailto:binutils-owner@sourceware.org] Namens Weddington, Eric
> Verzonden: vrijdag 17 april 2009 15:58
> Aan: Dave Korn; Egbert Jan van den Bussche
> CC: binutils@sourceware.org
> Onderwerp: RE: Binutils 2.19.1 Released (trying to build for AVR)
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Korn [mailto:dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 2:57 AM
> > To: Egbert Jan van den Bussche
> > Cc: Weddington, Eric; binutils@sourceware.org
> > Subject: Re: Binutils 2.19.1 Released (trying to build for AVR)
> >
> > Egbert Jan van den Bussche wrote:
> > > TNX Eric,
> > >
> > > I will change my local source. Bit strange that this change
> > is not in 2.19.1
> > > though...
> >
> > Sounds like a reasonable candidate for a backport, ping the
> > branch and
> > target maintainers?
>
> Except that since the AVR is neither a primary or secondary
> target, the likelihood is low that there will be another
> release of the 2.19 branch just for issues with the AVR.
> There's a greater chance that 2.20 will come out before that happens.
>