Re: [Bug-gnulib] Patch proposal: 1-gary-safe-xfree.patch

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> 2003-09-15  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>         Don't use XMALLOC and XCALLOC.  Once we install the
>         corresponding patch into gnulib, this will fix some
>         address-calculation overflow bugs on hosts where calloc (A, B)
>         returns garbage when A*B overflows.
>
>         * m4/hash.c (m4_hash_new, node_new, m4_hash_resize,
>         maybe_grow, m4_get_hash_iterator_next): Replace XMALLOC with
>         xmalloc, XCALLOC with xcalloc.
>         * m4/m4.c (m4_create): Likewise.
>         * m4/m4private.h (m4_symbol_value_create): Likewise.
>         * m4/output.c (m4_output_init): Likewise.
>         * m4/symtab.c (symtab_fetch, m4_set_symbol_traced): Likewise.
>         * m4/syntax.c (remove_syntax_attribute): Likewise.
>         * src/freeze.c (reload_frozen_state): Likewise.
>         * src/main.c (main): Likewise.

Applied to HEAD.  Thanks!
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