Integer overflow bug in windows

Marco Leise Marco.Leise at gmx.de
Thu Nov 10 00:33:28 PST 2011


Am 10.11.2011, 05:21 Uhr, schrieb Kagamin <spam at here.lot>:

>> > Solution: upgrade all computers to 64-bit
>>
>> In windows ULONG is used for reference count, which is still 32-bit on  
>> 64-bit system.
>
> Although 32-bit counter may prove to be inadequate for 64-bit address  
> space.

I was only half serious about that ;) Clearly they had a bug with their  
reference counter not decrementing in a certain situation.


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