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od Heap-buffer overflow

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From: Grisha Levit <grishalevit <at> gmail.com>
To: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 78880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Subject: bug#78880: od Heap-buffer overflow
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:19:12 -0400

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 12:34 Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes:
>
> > On 24/06/2025 15:27, Grisha Levit wrote:
> >
> >> This part:
> >>
> >>>         tryline:
> >>>     +     idx_t i = 0;
> >>>     +     int c = 1; /* Init to 1 so can distinguish if NUL read. */
> >> triggers
> >>      warning: label followed by a declaration is a C23 extension
> >> [-Wc23-extensions]
> >
> > OK version 3 attached which simplifies
> > by removing the label and gotos entirely.
>
> Grisha, what did you pass to ./configure?
>
> I'm suprised we don't disable this in Gnulib. Since there we do:
>
>     static_assert (1 < sizeof (example))
>
> Without a second argument message string, I would expect Clang to
> complain about it, unless we disable it.

Sorry, TBH I didn't do a proper build, I just remembered the
discussion at [1] while reading the patch.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2024-04/msg00044.html

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