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Hunting a 34 year old pointer bug in EtherSlip

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38 points·by mbbrutman·hace 3 meses·9 comments

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·hace 3 meses·discuss
I got lucky here with the compiler detecting the problem given that it wasn't just limited to using a null pointer. Depending on the buffer offset being handed back, it could have hit anywhere in the data segment.