STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > I am concerned about conditions that are impossible in a valid > program. However, if you have a buffer overflow that trashes your > tp_name pointer so that it suddenly resolves to a binary code section,
Yes, %.100s may avoid a crash after the buffer overflow on the string formatting, but it may quickly crash on another instruction. I don't think that you should limit the error message length to protect Python against buffer overflow. A buffer overflow can corrupt everything, and we should fix the buffer overflow instead :-) > you will need all help you can get to find the bug. You have debuggers like gdb for that. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10833> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
