X-Authentication-Warning: ieva01.lanet.lv: pavenis owned process doing -bs
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:15:05 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with FSDB (patch included)
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> >   static void
> >   redraw (int first)
> >   {
> > !   char *buf = alloca (8192);
> 
> Isn't the length of the symbol known somehow at this point?  If so,
> why not use that length explicitly?
> 

I didn't study FSDB sources very carefully. I only saw evident memory
overwrite problem and tried to guess the place where it happens from
sources. Tests showed that I suceeded.

Perhaps better would be to cut tail of name of ext. symbol before
sprintf(). Anyway we'll not be able to see it on screen. 

Andris