Alpha strncpy bug

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 05:28:13PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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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.
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> 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.

Thanks.  The testsuite is still missing a case, damned if I can figure
out what it is, and the asm change is wrong; rpcgen doesn't work with
the patch applied.  My mistake.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer