Re: CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Aug 20, 2013, 23:45 UTC
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
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> Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes: > >> I don't see how it's undefined. It's using the memory that 'pos' >> *points to* that is undefined, no? The difference between 'pos' and >> 'str' should still be the same, it's not like realloc somehow >> magically updates 'pos'... > > It does. Think of segmented architectures, where freeing a pointer > invalidates its segment, so that even loading the value of the pointer > traps. Probably no such architecture is in use any more, though.
I love seeing that we have somebody who knows and can explain these dark corners of ANSI C standard ;-)