> Ken Ashcraft <kash@stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I'm with the Stanford Metacompilation research group and I wrote a checker
> > that looks for places where people use 'sizeof(ptr)' instead of
> > 'sizeof(*ptr)' as the length argument to memcpy/memset.
>
> Well they all look like genuine bugs. It could be that some code is just
> performing overly-paranoid memsets.
>
> I shall submit the below lot unless squeaked at.
No squeaks from me.
Ken, would you please try and Cc: maintainers for future reports?
- James
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