[sldev] Notes from a Mac Build

Lillian Yiyuan lillie.yiyuan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 06:09:27 PST 2009


You can tell the nice people developing the gcc that they made a
mistake enforcing type checking then. However, you've provided no
evidence that your position is based on any kind of knowledge.



On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Argent Stonecutter
<secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2009-11-04, at 07:34, Lillian Yiyuan wrote:
>> As I understand what is going on, it is definitely a vulnerability to
>> have a pointer to a fixed string being handed out as if it is a
>> variable. You can get rid of it by the flag for no write strings,
>> which is one of the options. But I don't know enough about the problem
>> to say which of the choices it should be, and you don't seem to
>> either.
>
> Which is why it should be left as a *warning* until someone actually
> traces down what the correct fix is, rather than hiding it or creating
> a memory leak.
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