[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 30827] Off-by-one hard-to-trigger memory corruption in CSSParser (seen only with GCC 4.4)

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Wed Oct 28 12:34:58 PDT 2009


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30827





--- Comment #16 from Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>  2009-10-28 12:34:57 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> My goal was to stop possible crashes in the field without requiring package
> builders using gcc 4.4 to carry extra patches until the problem is properly
> resolved.

Seems OK to me, although a bit sloppy.

> Part of the rationale for suggesting this was that it looks like the
> problem might take a while to solve and I was anticipating that when debugging
> the problem it would be easy to revert the patch locally if desired.

I agree this won’t cause much difficulty debugging the problem.

Typically we hold off on making a change that just makes a bug go away until we
understand why it does. Maybe this is a special case.

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