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From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] Potential bug in __res_msend_rc() wrt to union initialisation.
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:39:25 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSM.4.64L.2403182237400.6699@herc.mirbsd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <627epdel4gidvu46u5ua2mclieqy3wwqbs7sxjgtgrsmkvn4up@ehu5ru6micnr>

NRK dixit:

>So something like:
>
>	static union u zero;
>	union u u = zero;

Even that gets funny when you have:

union {
	struct {
		char *foo;
		uintptr_t bar;
	} a;
	struct {
		uintptr_t baz;
		char *bla;
	} b;
} u;

In this case, u.b.baz can very well be 0x55555555
when you initialise u.a as {} (C23+) or {0}, e.g.
on TenDRA with the option to have nil pointers be
not a binary 0-bits representation.

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
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22:21⎜<asarch> And the distance between the craziness and geniality is
only measured by the success 18:35⎜<asarch> "Psychotics are consistently
inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-18 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-18 19:56 [musl] Potential bug in __res_msend_rc() wrt to union initialization Mike Cui
2024-03-18 21:34 ` Rich Felker
2024-03-18 22:22   ` NRK
2024-03-18 22:39     ` Thorsten Glaser [this message]
2024-03-19  0:01     ` Mike Cui
2024-03-19 13:18       ` Rich Felker
2024-03-19 15:04         ` Mike Cui
2024-03-19 15:42           ` Rich Felker
2024-03-19 15:55             ` Mike Cui
2024-03-19 16:08               ` Rich Felker
2024-03-19 16:39                 ` Jₑₙₛ Gustedt
2024-03-19 20:47                   ` Thorsten Glaser
2024-03-21 10:58                     ` Jₑₙₛ Gustedt
2024-03-21 16:41                       ` Thorsten Glaser
2024-03-19 21:04                   ` NRK
2024-03-19 21:36                     ` Rich Felker
2024-03-20 17:11                       ` NRK

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