full-disclosure - Re: Firefox 2.0.0.7 has a very serious calculation bug

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Message-ID: <be950f350710011033p36ff7366xcca6e913739fc16e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:33:20 -0400
From: wac <waldoalvarez00@...il.com>
To: "Jimby Sharp" <jimbysharp@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Firefox 2.0.0.7 has a very serious
	calculation bug

>
> If I use strcpy() to read user input into a buffer, I am at fault and
> not C compiler.

 I don't think that's a fair comparison.
If you make the right algorithm and you do not get the expected
results *is* not
your fault but what are you sitting at (compiler, framework, library ...).

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