Re: GNUstep BUFFER OVERFLOWS

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 29 Dec 2013, at 05:51, a b <a_bright2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Since I am new to GNUstep I need to ask if this might be caused by the 
> environment
> not being set up correctly (GNUstep not installed, or not installed 
> properly?).  This 
> behavior is occuring under Win7.  I find this behavior odd since buffer 
> overflows are 
> not considered to be a good thing on the Windows platform.
>  
> Any thoughts, suggestions?

I don't think anyone likes buffer overruns on any platform.
Unfortunatrely we have no windows programmers, so the windows specific parts of 
GNUstep are mostly written by people working from the microsoftr documentatrion 
without any experience of the windows APIs, and I guess errors are more likely 
in the windows code and we rely on windows users to help out.
Thanks for pointing these out ... I'll try to figurew out what's causing the 
problems, but if you can provide more context (and better still, patches) I'd 
be grateful.