[R] I don't understand this

[Luke Tierney]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> 
> By the way, is anyone else worried about this code:
> 
>     static SEXP applydefine(SEXP call, SEXP op, SEXP args, SEXP rho)
>     {
> 	...
> =======>char buf[32];
> 	...
> 	while (isLanguage(CADR(expr))) {
> ===========>sprintf(buf, "%s<-", CHAR(PRINTNAME(CAR(expr))));
> 	    tmp = install(buf);
> 

Yes -- Brian added code to check this and similar buffer overflows to
R-devel a while ago.

luke

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