The ups and downs of strlcpy()
The ups and downs of strlcpy()
Posted Jul 25, 2012 15:11 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: The ups and downs of strlcpy() by nix
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One reason is debugging stack corruption, where normal tools may not give meaningful backtraces. With frame-pointers, you can easily figure out where earlier, uncorrupted, frames really are, and figuring out why it crashed.
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The ups and downs of strlcpy()
Posted Jul 25, 2012 17:17 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Yep. That's why frame pointers should be *enableable*. It doesn't mean they should be on by default.