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Re: [MUMmer-help] MUMmer patch for dynamic memory allocation.



Hi Charles,
This patch looks fine. I saw it awhile back, but it got lost in the shuffle and was never applied.

I'm on vacation right now, but I'll apply it to our distribution when I return.

Best,
-Adam Phillippy


On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
Dear MUMmer developers,

MUMmer is packaged for the Debian operating system since 2007, and the version
we distribute includes a patch for dynamic memory allocation similar to the one
that was originally submitted to the SourceForge tracker a few years ago:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1215086&group_id=133157&atid=726404
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/mummer/trunk/debian/patches/01sm_src_tigr.diff

We would like to know your opinion of this patch. If not applied, MUMmer
crashes on machines that have less than 512 Mo of memory, which contradicts
Debian's goals of being usable on a broad range of hardwares. Also, it may
create the conditions for a buffer overflow.

Best regards,

--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

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