Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2003 10:51:57 +1000 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [CHECKER] Passing wrong size to memcpy/memset |
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On Wed, 14 May 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ken Ashcraft <kash@stanford.edu> wrote: > > > > I'm with the Stanford Metacompilation research group and I wrote a checker > > that looks for places where people use 'sizeof(ptr)' instead of > > 'sizeof(*ptr)' as the length argument to memcpy/memset. > > Well they all look like genuine bugs. It could be that some code is just > performing overly-paranoid memsets. > > I shall submit the below lot unless squeaked at.
No squeaks from me.
Ken, would you please try and Cc: maintainers for future reports?
- James -- James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
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