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Honestly I'm most surprised they haven't replaced all the c-isms already. Seeing raw char pointers and strbrk is...weird.


Yes as a Googler, I'd probably flag that in review.

But it being old and critical, I'd also be wary of major changes.


I wonder if anyone ever found/accidentally triggered a buffer overflow in this or another part of googlebot.

I imagine these days it’s been incredibly hardened and is additionally sandboxed. But back in the day?




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