From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>,
binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix buffer overflow in gas
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 16:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je4q08s703.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060502145800.GA10963@lucon.org> (H. J. Lu's message of "Tue, 2 May 2006 07:58:00 -0700")
"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> I don't want to get too complicated here. We won't have buffer overflow
> anymore no matter what CHAR_BIT is.
If you have more than 8 bits in a char you need more than two characters
to represent it as a hex number. On the other hand, whether we get to
process more than an octet at a time in this case remains to be seen.
Andreas.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-02 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-01 18:40 H. J. Lu
2006-05-02 9:48 ` Nick Clifton
2006-05-02 13:31 ` H. J. Lu
2006-05-02 14:20 ` H. J. Lu
2006-05-02 14:35 ` Jan Beulich
2006-05-02 14:58 ` H. J. Lu
2006-05-02 16:53 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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