Hi Charles, This patch looks fine. I saw it awhile back, but it got lost in the shuffle and was never applied.
I'm on vacation right now, but I'll apply it to our distribution when I return. Best, -Adam Phillippy On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Charles Plessy <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear MUMmer developers, > > MUMmer is packaged for the Debian operating system since 2007, and the > version > we distribute includes a patch for dynamic memory allocation similar to the > one > that was originally submitted to the SourceForge tracker a few years ago: > > > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1215086&group_id=133157&atid=726404 > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/mummer/trunk/debian/patches/01sm_src_tigr.diff > > We would like to know your opinion of this patch. If not applied, MUMmer > crashes on machines that have less than 512 Mo of memory, which contradicts > Debian's goals of being usable on a broad range of hardwares. Also, it may > create the conditions for a buffer overflow. > > Best regards, > > -- > Charles Plessy > Debian Med packaging team, > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > MUMmer-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mummer-help >
