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Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:37:00 -0000
From: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: about the usage of sprintf in gdb, specifically in gdb/remote.c
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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