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flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #727064
  2. Comment #87

Comment 87 for bug 727064

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In , torvalds (torvalds-redhat-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #39)
> The only stupidity is crap software violating well known rules that have
> existed forever.

Umm. Bugs happen. That's a fact.

You can call it "crap software" all you like, but the thing is, if memcpy doesn't warn about overlaps, there's no test coverage, and in that case even well-designed software will have bugs.

Then the question becomes one of "Why break it?"

I have yet to hear the actual _reason_ for making the change to memcpy. We know what the downside is. What's the upside?