[elinks-dev] increased risk of ECMAScript crashes in ELinks 0.11.3.GIT

[Jonas Fonseca]

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon at iki.fi> wrote Wed, May 30, 2007:
> Jonas Fonseca <fonseca at diku.dk> writes:
> 
> > Ok, thanks for the warning, however, I thought that I expressed that I
> > do not really consider ECMAScript related crashes as something to worry
> > about for the current stable version.
> 
> 2007-05-27:
> <paakku> fonseca: Should bug 755 be fixed in 0.11.3.GIT or 0.11.4.GIT?
> <fonseca> paakku: I don't really care about ECMAScript bugs.
> 
> Crashes caused by dangling pointers may be exploitable (unlike
> crashes caused by null pointers).  I think they should be fixed
> regardless of whether they occur in ECMAScript support or
> elsewhere in ELinks.  And I especially don't want to become
> responsible of making a release crash more than the previous one.

Fair enough. I guess my reason for not caring stems from the feeling of
ECMAScript being pushed too soon before it was even half decent. Perhaps
those days are over. ;)

> > I will try to find time to release 0.11.4 in the start of June.
> 
> I don't think I'll be able to fix things properly before that,
> so I have now reverted the two commits from elinks-0.11.

Ok, cool. Will try to find time to do the preparations for .4

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Jonas Fonseca