On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 1:01 PM Paul Smith wrote:
> The reason for the "special" code here is
> performance, and unfortunately the solution proposed will reduce
> performance by a measurable amount (not huge but measurable).
Paul, is this call to strlen that you are concerned with?
It is possible
On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 08:29 +, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> > With "normal" systems it's safe to read (only) memory beyond the end
> > of an array, at least up to the next word size, which is what this
> > code does.
>
> If you want to be able to rely on this "normal" behaviour, for the sake
> of
On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 04:14 +, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
>> sum_up_to_nul reads 4 bytes starting from the passed string 'p'. 'p'
>> can have fewer than 4 bytes. Usually there more allocated space after
>> 'p', which prevents this reading from manifesting itself.
Usually malloc aligns its alloca
