GNU bug report logs - #18410
Use SAFE_ALLOCA etc. to avoid unbounded stack allocation.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 06:10:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 18410 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18410: Use SAFE_ALLOCA etc. to avoid unbounded stack allocation.
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 23:08:43 -0700

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Tags: patch

Attached is a patch to fix the unbounded alloca calls that I found when 
auditing the Emacs source.  I'm sending this to bug-gnu-emacs to give 
Eli a heads-up, as some of the fixes affect Windows code.  This patch is 
relative to Emacs trunk bzr 117822.

[alloca.patch (text/plain, attachment)]
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