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Re: baseN: new program suggestion (various 'base' encoding)

From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: baseN: new program suggestion (various 'base' encoding)
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 05:10:30 -0800
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On 05/01/19 16:21, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> On 2019-01-04 10:38 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>
>>> I wonder should we avoid VLAs in coreutils altogether?
>>> I.E. add -Werror=vla. The kernel has done this for security reaons.
>>
> Attached is a suggested patch to allocate buffers on the heap
> (even if they were not VLAs).
> 
> Comments welcomed,

+1

thanks,
Pádraig
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