Re: Bugs in fillHole ?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 01:29  pm, Richard Frith-Macdonald 
wrote:

> Wow,  how could that bug go unnoticed?

Actually, thinking about it, that's fairly easy ... the bug would not 
cause any problem
on most systems ... the read access beyond the end of a block of memory 
is almost
always safe, and the memcpy code is not used on any system I know of.

However, this *could* in theory have caused very very occasional 
segmentation
violations where  the byte after the block of memory allocated for the 
string is also
beyond the block of memory that malloc allocated using brk()/sbrk()