Re: patch for expandmacro

On Sunday, September 12, 2004, at 04:28  PM, jcopenha wrote:

> 	I was running into a problem on my particular tex file that had some
> large parameters to macros.  This was causing a segfault in
> definitions.c:expandmacro because it was overflowing the staticly
> allocated buffer[1024].  I've changed it to calculate the max length
> based on the args array and the macro passed in.

I applied your patch.

>  There are still some
> other places where this code could fail but this fix solves my problem.
> =)

Ironically, after I applied your patch, I got a security alert that 
this piece
of code was subject to buffer overruns.  Consequently, I just fixed 
those
"other places" so that macro expansion should fixed.

Thanks,
Scott



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