delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: djgpp/2004/03/23/04:30:47

X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f
From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Rafael_Garc=EDa?= <rafael-no_spam_please_ AT geninfor DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: strange comparison error
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:23:03 +0100
Organization: Telefonica Data Espagna
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <opr5a5opiiwfff31@news.mad.ttd.net>
References: <opr49vxpzbwfff31 AT news DOT mad DOT ttd DOT net> <200403221712 DOT i2MHCeik004358 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 100.red-80-34-252.pooles.rima-tde.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: nsnmrro2-gest.nuria.telefonica-data.net 1080033945 22834 80.34.252.100 (23 Mar 2004 09:25:45 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet AT nsnmrro2-gest DOT nuria DOT telefonica-data DOT net
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:25:45 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Opera7.11/Win32 M2 build 2887
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

En Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:12:40 -0500, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> escribió:

>
>> if (pcampo>reg+MAXFIELDS) {     // intercept huge (bad) values
>
> If integer overflow is the culprit, you'll find this a bit safer:
>
> if (pcampo-reg > MAXFIELDS) {     // intercept huge (bad) values
>
Sorry, I don't understand. Could you please explain a bit more?
We are using 32 bit numbers, the size of the struct is around 100 bytes. We 
should go to thousands of t_field's to reach overflow. Right? I have 14 
here.



-- 
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019