doc: Mention memory allocation in the fuzz testing section

It's obviously undesireable to blindly allocate memory based on
a damaged 'size' value, for example.

Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
pull/8/head
Derek Buitenhuis 12 years ago
parent dc3e12d1cb
commit ac2603be28
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@ -453,7 +453,8 @@ send a reminder by email. Your patch should eventually be dealt with.
Did you test your decoder or demuxer against damaged data? If no, see
tools/trasher, the noise bitstream filter, and
@uref{http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/zzuf, zzuf}. Your decoder or demuxer
should not crash or end in a (near) infinite loop when fed damaged data.
should not crash, end in a (near) infinite loop, or allocate ridiculous
amounts of memory when fed damaged data.
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Does the patch not mix functional and cosmetic changes?
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