Re: 2.99.1: new beta / almost release candidate

Thomas Esser <[email protected]> schrieb:

>>From xpdf-3.00-5.2.100mdk.src.rpm, I see as
> xpdf-3.00-CAN-2004-0888-0889.patch.bz2 (from Oct. 19). Does this work or
> does it suffer from gcc optimizations? At least, one place (see below)
> explicitly says that this works...

I didn't test it myself, I just got the hint from the Debian Security
team. Things like this:


> +      if (newSize*sizeof(XRefEntry)/sizeof(XRefEntry) != newSize) {

Will be optimized by a "clever" compiler to if (newSize != newSize) ...

A fixed version can e.g. be found in the "interdiff" link at

https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2748

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer