[cod] 1.41b

[Mark J. DeFilippis]

Ryan,

I am impressed.  Having been a Unix internals coder for 8 years
professionally in Market Data systems (You know they can't crash
at all ;-))  (You never stop being a coder... :-))

Two mins... to find stack overrun, move it to the heap
and post back.

Dang!!!

Dr. D

At 01:53 PM 9/22/2004, you wrote:

>Get some.
>
>http://0day.icculus.org/cod/coduo-lnxded-1.41b.tar.bz2
>
>This is the same as 1.41a, except it doesn't crash on startup.  :)
>
>What happened is there is a function that allocates a ton of stack
>space, which was causing some systems to crash (I assume there are some
>defaults that are higher and lower between distros (kernels? glibc?) for
>the amount of stack space a process gets). I just changed that function
>to not allocate on the stack anymore and it no longer crashes.
>
>If you aren't crashing on startup, you don't need to update to 1.41b,
>but you probably should anyhow.
>
>--ryan.

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Mark J. DeFilippis                    defilm at acm.org
                                       defilm at ieee.org


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