RE: GNUstep BUFFER OVERFLOWS

[a b]

>>>>if you can provide more context (and better still, patches) I'd be grateful.
 
Were I more experienced with GNUstep, I might be able to consider
providing a patch.

 

> Subject: Re: GNUstep BUFFER OVERFLOWS
> From: richardfrithmacdonald@gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 10:37:36 +0000
> CC: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> To: a_bright2@hotmail.com
>
>
> On 29 Dec 2013, at 05:51, a b <a_bright2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Since I am new to GNUstep I need to ask if this might be caused by the environment
> > not being set up correctly (GNUstep not installed, or not installed properly?). This
> > behavior is occuring under Win7. I find this behavior odd since buffer overflows are
> > not considered to be a good thing on the Windows platform.
> >
> > Any thoughts, suggestions?
>
> I don't think anyone likes buffer overruns on any platform.
> Unfortunatrely we have no windows programmers, so the windows specific parts of GNUstep are mostly written by people working from the microsoftr documentatrion without any experience of the windows APIs, and I guess errors are more likely in the windows code and we rely on windows users to help out.
> Thanks for pointing these out ... I'll try to figurew out what's causing the problems, but if you can provide more context (and better still, patches) I'd be grateful.
>