[perl #32391] [TODO] IMCC - remove lexer's identifier length restrictions
Will Coleda via RT
parrotbug-followup at parrotcode.org
Wed Dec 3 15:59:57 UTC 2008
On Tue Nov 09 19:12:28 2004, coke wrote:
> - lexer doesn't impose limits on identifiers, this could lead
> to buffer overflows.
> So there are a bunch of unsafe strcats and sprintfs, some of them
> marked XXX.
>
> from imcc/BUGS
Given that the goal is to move away from IMCC to pirc, I'm rejecting
this stalled IMCC ticket; please take care when working on pirc to avoid
similar issues.
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Will "Coke" Coleda
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