Star New malloc() Implementation Fixes Ancient Bug in yacc
Linked by David Adams on Fri 11th Jul 2008 01:55 UTC, submitted by ohxten
BSD and Darwin derivatives An ancient (at least 33 years old) stack-overflow bug has been discovered and fixed in yacc, thanks to a new malloc() implementation by Otto Moerbeek. More info and a complete description of the bug can be found here.
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RE: Great!
by flanque on Fri 11th Jul 2008 03:42 UTC in reply to "Great! "
flanque
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2005-12-15

It's great it took 33 years?

Maybe from Microsoft, but BSD..

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