[mapserver-dev] Ticket 3537 - Buffer overflow vulnerabilities

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

  On 06/10/2010 2:21 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
>> Building with MSVC (9), I get build errors for the following declaration:
>> size_t buffer_size = 512;
>>   char buffer[buffer_size];  #line 2209
>>
>> mappostgis.c(2209) : error C2057: expected constant expression
>> mappostgis.c(2209) : error C2466: cannot allocate an array of constant
>> size 0
>> mappostgis.c(2209) : error C2133: 'buffer' : unknown size
>>
>>   I will change locally and continue the build.
>>
> What change did you make? Was it enough to make buffer_size a const?
>
>
I tried const and static const but both did not work. For some reason 
the variable is not seen as being constant at compile time. I have to 
use the value 512 for it to compile, I will look if there are other ways.

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