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Re: Buffer overflow in cp and mv commands
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Buffer overflow in cp and mv commands |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:55:01 +0200 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> writes:
>> +use ppc && has_pie && filter-flags -fno-strict-aliasing
>
> That bug report is pretty vague. It's not clear to me that this is
> due to a buffer overflow problem. It could just be a compiler bug,
> for example. Or it could be something else. I don't offhand see why
> adding -fno-strict-aliasing would fix a buffer overflow problem.
I got the impression it was a compiler bug affecting both
coreutils and sed on ppc.
Re: Buffer overflow in cp and mv commands, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/12