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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} us
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M. Warner Losh |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:10:44 -0700 (MST) |
In message: <address@hidden>
Andreas_Färber <address@hidden> writes:
:
: Am 04.01.2008 um 15:00 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
:
: > Andreas Färber, le Fri 04 Jan 2008 14:41:29 +0100, a écrit :
: >>
: >> Am 04.01.2008 um 14:20 schrieb Thiemo Seufer:
: >>
: >>> Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
: >>>> Trivial fix that ensures that all buffers used for bdrv_read or
: >>>> bdrv_write
: >>>> are from an array of the uint8_t type
: >>>
: >>> Do we have a host where this actually makes a difference?
: >>
: >> I believe Perl makes sizeof(char) checks, so there likely is some
: >> platform where sizeof(char) > 1.
: >
: > The C standard says
: >
: > `When applied to an operand that has type char, unsigned char, or
: > signed
: > char, (or a qualified version thereof) the result is 1.'
:
: The standard maybe. But Win64 violates the C standards, too. ;)
:
: According to our department's ANSI C course, the only consistent rule is
: sizeof(char) <= sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long)
: without any concrete numbers.
:
: I'm not saying it should be changed or not in QEMU, just saying it may
: not be completely out-of-the-world.
The problem is that sizeof(char) has to be 1, or a number of things
will down right fail. The following code will fail if it doesn't:
char *a = "abc";
char *b = malloc(strlen(a) + 1);
strcpy(b, a);
If sizeof(char) is really 2, then sizeof("abc") is going to be 6, not
3 that strlen returns and the strcpy will smash into memory it doesn't
own. And *NOBODY*, not even ignorant students, adds a '*
sizeof(char)' to the strlen. Such a compiler would break just about
every program out there of any significant size.
Now, there's a wchar_t which is the type of the characters in a L
string: "abc"L can be 4, 8, 12, 16 or more bytes in size, but that's
different, and not what's being discussed.
Warner
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon, 2008/01/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter, Thiemo Seufer, 2008/01/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter, Andreas Färber, 2008/01/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter, Samuel Thibault, 2008/01/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter, Andreas Färber, 2008/01/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter, Thiemo Seufer, 2008/01/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter,
M. Warner Losh <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter, Andreas Schwab, 2008/01/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter, Rob Landley, 2008/01/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon, 2008/01/04