[Rd] Patch for R to fix some buffer overruns and add a missing PROTECT().

[Karl Millar]

Bug submitted.  Thanks.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/09/2014 3:20 PM, Karl Millar wrote:
>>
>> This patch is against current svn and contains three classes of fix:
>>     - Ensure the result is properly terminated after calls to strncpy()
>>     - Replace calls of sprintf() with snprintf()
>>     - Added a PROTECT() call in do_while which could cause memory
>> errors if evaluating the condition results in a warning.
>
>
> Nothing was attached.
>
> Generally fixes like this are best sent to bugs.r-project.org, and they
> receive highest priority if accompanied by code demonstrating why they are
> needed, i.e. crashes or incorrect results in current R.  Those will likely
> be incorporated as regression tests.
>
> Duncan Murdoch