[fpc-devel] possible unicode buffer overflow

[Marc Weustink]

Ignore it. My error.

Marc


On 17/04/2026 16:52, Marc Weustink via fpc-devel wrote:
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> On 17/04/2026 16:40, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote:
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>> On Fri, 17 Apr 2026, Marc Weustink via fpc-devel wrote:
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>>> I can't believe it, but ansistrings, resource loading, string 
>>> formatting, all are affected and writing one, two or even more bytes 
>>> behind the buffer.
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>> That sounds strange, we'd have much more error reports if this was the 
>> case...
> 
> That's why I can't believe it. However, since all mem is allocated in 
> multiple of 32 bytes, you only run into it when allocating exactly a 
> multiple of that.
> 
> Anyway, I need to finish my piece of software before the end of this 
> month, so I've little time to dive deeper into this.
> 
> (For the product it isn't a problem, while I'm coding using FPC+Laz, the 
> final product is build in Delphi)
> 
> Marc
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