Hi Sun,

I think the changes that you are suggesting are an addition to the
changes in the submitted patch.  If that is the case, then I would
rather make them as a separate commit as I have already tested the
patch and I know that it fixes the FORTIFY_SOURCE issue.

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Sun Chan <sun.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> a most economic way to do that is to use #define like SZ_STR
> then afterwards, assert that strlen(msg_str) < SZ_STR
> Sun
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Sun Chan <sun.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If we are fixing that, we might as well fix potential issues. E.g.
>> check for strlen and truncate, use alloca, ... or simply make it twice
>> the size (although it still technically is potentially wrong)
>> Sun
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:04 AM, David Coakley <dcoak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yes, I noticed that the msg_str buffer size seemed small.  However, I
>>> didn't see any immediate problems and there were no more complaints
>>> from the FORTIFY_SOURCE checking so I left it as-is.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Sun Chan <sun.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> your msg_str could get out of bound too (not now, but some fixes later on).
>>>> Sun
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:31 PM, David Coakley <dcoak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Recently I tried to build Open64 with gcc-4.5.1 and FORTIFY_SOURCE
>>>>> checking turned on.  The Fortran frontend would not run at all because
>>>>> of a failing buffer overflow check that occurred during command-line
>>>>> processing.  Although this failure turned out to be a false alarm, it
>>>>> was fairly easy to work around.  And since the FORTIFY_SOURCE checking
>>>>> did uncover some real problems, I thought it was worth making source
>>>>> changes to work around the problem rather than turning the checking
>>>>> off.
>>>>>
>>>>> The attached file msg.txt details the changes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could a gatekeeper please review the patch?  Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> -David Coakley / AMD Open Source Compiler Engineering
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