[Png-mng-security] potentially serious memory handling error in libpng
Tom Lane
tgl at sss.pgh.pa.us
Thu Feb 5 15:20:42 UTC 2009
glennrp at comcast.net writes:
> In the other hand, we have been getting away with using memset
> to initialize pointers to zero all along.
As has every other piece of C software on the planet. Don't worry about
it. (The memset also seems much less likely to fall victim to any
hypothetical overaggressive-optimization bugs.)
regards, tom lane
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