| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | scrappy(at)hub(dot)org (The Hermit Hacker) |
| Cc: | mgittens(at)david(dot)gits(dot)nl, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] patch for memory overrun on Linux(i386) |
| Date: | 1998-03-22 03:58:03 |
| Message-ID: | 199803220358.WAA02311@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Some things just require confirmation...can someone else (Thomas?) running
> Linux comment on this before I apply it? I just find it kinda unexpected
> to see something that doesn't work for SCO doesn't work for Linux too :)
On BSDI, malloc man pages says:
The allocated space is suitably aligned (after possible pointer coercion)
for storage of any type of object.
I don't believe this is a standard, and I think Linux may not follow it.
I think I heard somewhere they don't. We certainly need to have this
checked before use in a patch.
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