Alpha strncpy bug
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Mon Sep 9 17:32:00 GMT 2002
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Well, this was an interesting exposure to Alpha assembly.... a bug was
> reported to Debian where strncpy would read past the end of the page on
> Alpha systems, in some circumstances. I tracked it down, and I extended
> stratcliff.c to catch some more possible strncpy bugs.
I've applied the test case patch. rth will have at least to comment on
the asm change. And please include a ChangeLog entry in future.
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