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On 13 September 2016 at 20:29, Todd Rinaldo via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > On Tue Sep 13 11:26:24 2016, demerphq wrote: > >> > I did not search for other examples. I thought it might be best to >> > open a discussion before proceeding on any work. >> >> Not sure what there is to discuss really. Wrong is wrong. ☺️ >> >> Yves > > > Proposed patch. I'm 99% certain we need <= not <. However this is why I use Perl. So I don't have to remember that ;) FWIW. I dont think so. We need <. Assume name = 0, and len = 10, then we should stop processing when name hits 10, as the 10 chars we are allowed to look at will be at memory positions 0 through 9. If you use <= then we would try to dereference *10, which we dont own. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next