From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:44:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix segfault in diff-delta.c when FLEX_ARRAY is 1
Message-ID: <20071218014455.GB14981@artemis.madism.org>
In-Reply-To: <1197941997-11421-1-git-send-email-madcoder@debian.org>

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:39:57AM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> aka don't do pointer arithmetics on structs that have a FLEX_ARRAY member,
> or you'll end up believing your array is 1 cell off its real address.

  I wonder if we could teach sparse to prevent us from using pointer
arithmetics on some types… because I obviously didn't read all the git
code, and I wouldn't be surprised an instance of this still remains
somehwere.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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