Re: [HACKERS] 6.1 progress

Yea..bounds errors could lead to data corruption and should be fixed even
before the leaks....

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       Igor Natanzon      |**|   E-mail: igor@sba.miami.edu
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On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Tymm Twillman wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Igor wrote:
>
> Chances are that the uninitialized memory read errors aren't things that
> need to be worried about; e.g. if you create a structure and only
> use some parts of it, then write() the whole thing to somewhere, you'll
> see that.  I'll spend some time digging around in them and see if this is
> the case...  The bounds errors are, IMHO, the most important to tackle...
>
> -Tymm
>
> > If I remember correctly, not all of there problems from Purifying the
> > backend were memory leaks....there were array bounds errors ( should be
> > easy to track down) and uninitialized memory being read...stuff like
> > that...should be interesting...
> >
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> >        Igor Natanzon      |**|   E-mail: igor@sba.miami.edu
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> >
> > On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > No it wasn't me...Somebody mailed the questions list a while ago (half a
> > > > > > year maybe...my memory is not that good...) about purifying the
> > > > > > code...Then I think somebody else mailed hackers list a week or two ago...
> > > > >
> > > > > I know Kurt started on it, but I never heard if he finished.
> > > >
> > > >     Damn, now you have me curious...hold, back through my logs...found it:
> > > >
> > > > ===========================
> > > > > Robert Withrow wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think these need to be fixed before the release of 6.1.  Otherwise
> > > > > > this release is basicly a non-starter for any serious use, IMO.  I say
> > > > > > this because purify detects loads of *serious* problems in the backend
> > > > > > while running the regression tests.
> > > > > >
> > > > ===========================
> > > >
> > > >     I knew it wasn't Igor :)  That was from around the 30th of May...
> > >
> > > I guess this answers my curiosity of what Igor is going to find running
> > > Purify on the backend.
> > >
> > > When I originally thought about a postponement for the Purify run, I
> > > thought it could all be done in a week.  I did not expect so many bugs
> > > being found.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bruce Momjian
> > > maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
> > >
> >
> >
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