[U-Boot] Discussion topics / issues

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Oct 11 17:16:14 CEST 2014


Dear Jeroen,

In message <20141011150346.150C038352A at gemini.denx.de> i wrote:
> 
> Which is "better"?  A is obviously much shorter and more elegant; but
> B is much more robust - A will happily crash your system when you try
> to print a string like "s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s" (not to mention that
> this may open a classic attack vector to break into a running system).

Ignore me.  This example was obviously crap.  What I had in mind was 
something where you would use

	char *s;
	...
	printf(s);

Sorry...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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