From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:52:05 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] Buffer overruns in printf In-Reply-To: <4E80FC92.9040500@freescale.com> References: <1316799532-20761-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> <4E7CEEAF.2040709@aribaud.net> <4E7DA4C3.7060203@aribaud.net> <4E7EE910.8090504@aribaud.net> <4E806006.2060105@aribaud.net> <4E80FC92.9040500@freescale.com> Message-ID: <4E817295.1030200@aribaud.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 27/09/2011 00:28, Scott Wood wrote: >> - users who actually wisht to limit outpout ca use either > > You say "actually wish to limit output" as if "let it corrupt memory if > it's too large" is the normal thing to want. What I meant was "users who actually want to limit output explicitly by truncating it rather than implicitly by always outputting small enough text or crafting limitations in the format string specifiers, ..." > -scott Amicalement, -- Albert.