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Message-ID: <46244b.3b3e.13931f6eccc.Webtop.0@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:23:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: jfoug@....net
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Serious wordlist.c bug fixed (all branches)
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:52 PM, magnum wrote:
> I just committed a large-ish patch to magnum-jumbo that changes nearly
> all uses of free() (as well as some macros) to MEM_FREE.
>
> Dhiru, all, please use MEM_FREE from now on.
It is not just using the MEM_FREE macro. It also entails using
alloc_mem() when approparate, and alloc_mem_tiny() or mem_calloc_tiny()
in other instances, and knowing when it is approate to use each. also
using str_alloc_copy, vs strdup. Those seem to be the larger culprits.
Jim.
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