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Re: about the usage of sprintf in gdb, specifically in gdb/remote.c
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > But I need to design a scenario to verify that.
It seems that most target don't implement "to_extra_thread_info" (ok, at
least in i386 and ppc), gdbserver will return NULL to "qThreadExtraInfo".
So I can't verify this yet.
> That's my point exactly: you don't need to go to such lengths. If it
> isn't 100% obvious that no overflow is possible, we should remove
> sprintf in favor of safer functions.
Maybe you are right. I will post a patch in a while.
Cheers
- Wu Zhou