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New malloc in OpenBSD helps spot 33 year old bug in yacc

• jey 18y ago
  All those people running yacc parsers under valgrind memcheck or Purify probably just thought "Oh, it's yacc, how could yacc still have bugs after 30 years? I'll just add a suppression rule..." :)
  • cheponis 18y ago
    I think lots of people run Antlr these days. http://www.antlr.org/ http://www.antlr.org/
• silentbicycle 18y ago
  They also found a nearly-25-year-old bug in SAMBA a few months back. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080508193255 http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2008050819325...
  • there 18y ago
    that bug was in our libc, not samba. samba just had some code to work around the problematic behavior.
    • silentbicycle 18y ago
      I stand corrected.