Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Yes, but the real problem is to determine whether the code needs any
  > changes at all.  For that, one must understand the control flow, and
  > figure out whether pointers to buffer text are used across malloc
  > calls without any updates.

That is true.  But this can find the functions that need to be checked,
because they make buffer pointers and they indirectly call malloc.


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