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Re: gcc 4.1 bug miscompiles pointer range checks, may place you at risk
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- Subject: Re: gcc 4.1 bug miscompiles pointer range checks, may place you at risk
- From: leonleon77@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 3 May 2006 07:21:09 -0000
perhaps instead of "c + len > c" being the test of pointer wraparound, one may
use the following (if there is a desire to use pointer-based arithmetic)...
#define MAXPTR (char *)0xffffffff // this would differ on 64 bit systems
if (MAXPTR - c < len)
{
// we have a pointer wraparound...
}