LyX 2.3.4 is Released
Pavel Sanda
sanda at lyx.org
Thu Feb 6 17:16:00 UTC 2020
On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 06:01:26PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 05:46:57PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 04:02:34PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 12:59:53PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > > > I looked at the code and the buffer length seems properly handled in the reported
> > > > line (247) by the previous if clause.
> > > > What is not clear to me are two following lines, which add m+1 chars while the
> > > > check seem to properly handle only m chars and leaving no place for the final' \0'.
> > > > Anyone else can confirm?
> > >
> > > I think the code is correct. It copies m+1 chars in order to be sure that
> > > the final '\0' is also copied. The fact that there is space for it is
> > > assured by the initial check that k+m+1 < MAX_WD_LEN.
> >
> > I checked the code again and you are right.
> > Misread < (by <=) in the initial condition.
>
> On second thought, I instead think you are right. The code also adds
> a blank after the first strncpy(dfn,pos,k), and that makes a total
> of k+m+2 chars when accounting also for the final '\0'.
This is what I initially thought, but no k+m+2 is still ok because we
check against < MAX_WD_LEN-1 not <= MAX_WD_LEN-1.
Pavel
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