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Re: Alpha strncpy bug

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, rth at redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:05:49 -0400
Subject: Re: Alpha strncpy bug
References: <20020908195903.GA11147@nevyn.them.org> <3D7D3C9D.7060702@redhat.com>

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.
> 
> 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.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

References:
- Alpha strncpy bug
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: Alpha strncpy bug
  - From: Ulrich Drepper

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