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Karl Williamson wrote: > I'm thinking we should go through embed.fnc looking for these parameter > types that are specifying lengths, and change them, even if these are in > the public API. Aren't these are segfaults and DOS attacks waiting to > happen? > > Zefram said we did something similar a while back with array indices. > > I'm unsure of the implications for modules that can work on earlier perls. The main problem to watch out for is I32 pointers. I32* parameters cannot be changed without really breaking things. Also, be aware that not every use of I32 is bad.Thread Previous | Thread Next