[MODERATED] Re: test numer 2

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On 2/28/19 10:22 AM, speck for mark gross wrote:
> [$] GMP and assert()
> [Security] Posted Feb 27, 2019 21:11 UTC (Wed) by jake
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> A report of a potential security problem in the GNU Multiple Precision
> Arithmetic (GMP) library was met with a mixed reaction, from skepticism to
> responses verging on hostility, but the report ultimately raised a question
> worth pondering. What role should assertions (i.e. calls to the POSIX assert()
> macro) play in error handling? An assertion that fails leads to a process exit,
> which may not be what a developer calling into a library expects. Unexpected
> behavior is, of course, one step on a path that can lead to security holes.
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