mcafee service host crash

[Peacekeeper]

I do not expect there to be any. Now to sort out why this is so....

[jmichae3]

typical causes of a crash are:

• Array index is out of bounds, either intentionally or accidentally, or through uninitialized integer variable which contains garbage
• pointer points to memory that the process doesn't own
• pointer is incremented/decremented beyond its allocated memory bounds (see array bounds)
• uninitialized pointer
• abused pointer
• unhandled C++ exception thrown
• general protection fault (old school)

a C pointer looks like

int x;

int * pn = &x; //address of x assigned to pn

char * str="a sample string"; if the compiler supports this construct and doesn't bail on it.

char s[2]="hello"; //big mistake, didn't allocate enough space

char s[5]="hello"; //big mistake, didn't allocate enough space, (close, but fencepost "off-by-1" error) should allocate space also for null terminator character

if you want to pass this on to engineering, maybe it will spur a thought, but it may be old hat to them.  or it may refresh some thinking that someone has forgotten.

[Peacekeeper]

Have done