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Re: Bug Report: sed-4.1.4 misinterprets uClibc's malloc (patch included)


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Bug Report: sed-4.1.4 misinterprets uClibc's malloc (patch included)
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:59:36 -0700
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Yuri Vasilevski <address@hidden> writes:

> Also glibc's realloc return NULL if size == 0, so in the places where
> realloc is used in regex the case of NULL pointers most be taken care
> off in any way.

I just checked, and regex never uses size == 0 with realloc, so we're
OK there.  (This assuming no arithmetic overflow, but the regex code
is riddled with overflow gotchas and I'd rather address that problem
separately.)




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