From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6890 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2011 00:43:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 6882 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Mar 2011 00:43:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_STOCKTIP,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:42:56 +0000 Received: (qmail 25958 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2011 00:42:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scottsdale.localnet) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 5 Mar 2011 00:42:54 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA] stabsread.c (define_symbol): Guard against bad stabstring input. Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:43:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-27-generic; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Michael Snyder References: <4D7185C5.70505@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <4D7185C5.70505@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201103050042.59285.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00351.txt.bz2 On Saturday 05 March 2011 00:37:25, Michael Snyder wrote: > I think I heard someone say that gdb should be proof against all inputs? Yes, but bad inputs aren't gdb bugs, so those should be errors or warnings, not internal_errors. -- Pedro Alves