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From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pngread: alloc chunk's length
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:46:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XPMyuTaMF3f5NU4ighwtk=xz+BmC0j1yGKeMc2HZ2zY4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c354c3b-899-26d-01e-e69abde0b322@SDF.ORG>

you seem to propose that if the png tells us to then we should
allocate 2GB per chunk, just bec. the spec allows it

even if the spec doesn't tell us a limit, we might want to have a limit.

On 7/13/21, adr via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, hiro wrote:
>> are you saying this is a purely synthetic error, it doesn't happen in
>> the wild bec. these sizes are normally more sane?
> 
> No, no... you got it wrong. You have to follow the specification
> of the format, unless you want to have surprises like this one.
> 
> The file you'll obtain with the example I gave you will be as
> correct as any other png file.
> 
> Regards,
> adr.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-13  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-10 21:28 adr via 9fans
2021-07-10 21:49 ` adr via 9fans
2021-07-12 12:53   ` ori
2021-07-12 16:28     ` adr via 9fans
2021-07-12 16:01 ` ori
2021-07-12 17:01   ` adr via 9fans
2021-07-12 18:04     ` hiro
2021-07-12 23:31       ` adr via 9fans
2021-07-12 23:49         ` adr via 9fans
2021-07-13  8:16           ` hiro
2021-07-13  9:40             ` adr via 9fans
2021-07-13  9:46               ` hiro [this message]
2021-07-13 12:04                 ` adr via 9fans
2021-07-13 12:11                 ` adr via 9fans
2021-07-14 15:52     ` ori
2021-07-14 17:05       ` adr via 9fans

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