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Use SAFE_ALLOCA etc. to avoid unbounded stack allocation.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#18410: closed (Re: Use SAFE_ALLOCA etc. to avoid unbounded
 stack allocation.)
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 07:21:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#18410: Use SAFE_ALLOCA etc. to avoid unbounded stack allocation.

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 18410 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 18410-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use SAFE_ALLOCA etc. to avoid unbounded stack allocation.
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 00:20:33 -0700

I installed the patch as trunk bzr 117829 and am marking this as done.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Emacs bug reports and feature requests <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 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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