From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 81760 invoked by alias); 1 Dec 2019 14:46:46 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 81752 invoked by uid 89); 1 Dec 2019 14:46:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Languages-Length:272, H*F:D*ca X-HELO: simark.ca Received: from simark.ca (HELO simark.ca) (158.69.221.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 01 Dec 2019 14:46:44 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.11] (unknown [192.222.164.54]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by simark.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1D2E11E60A; Sun, 1 Dec 2019 09:46:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] sim-utils.c: prevent buffer overflow. To: "Pavel I. Kryukov" , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: Cc: Andrew Burgess From: Simon Marchi Message-ID: <969988fa-470f-9013-9948-dfff11922067@simark.ca> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 14:46:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2019-12/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 On 2019-11-30 5:53 p.m., Pavel I. Kryukov wrote: Is the sim built in C++ like GDB? If so, maybe this function could return an std::string, so there's no more concerns of allocating a static buffer with sufficient space?