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From: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: about the usage of sprintf in gdb, specifically in gdb/remote.c
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0505260550520.22654@plinuxt18.cn.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <usm0ay7ph.fsf@gnu.org>

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > But I need to design a scenario to verify that.

It seems that most target don't implement "to_extra_thread_info" (ok, at 
least in i386 and ppc), gdbserver will return NULL to "qThreadExtraInfo".
So I can't verify this yet.  

> That's my point exactly: you don't need to go to such lengths.  If it
> isn't 100% obvious that no overflow is possible, we should remove
> sprintf in favor of safer functions.

Maybe you are right.  I will post a patch in a while. 

Cheers
- Wu Zhou


      reply	other threads:[~2005-05-26  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-25 13:00 Wu Zhou
2005-05-26  1:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-26  3:11   ` Wu Zhou
2005-05-26  3:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-26  6:37       ` Wu Zhou [this message]

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