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Message-ID: <8211e67b7c841d9315cd0d2a0a95008d@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:54:30 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Serious wordlist.c bug fixed (all branches)

On 2012-08-17 02:23, jfoug@....net wrote:
> 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.

Sure, one step at a time ;-)

BTW, it's mem_alloc() and mem_alloc_tiny().

magnum

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