Questions tagged [third-party-libraries]

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How do I handle malformed compressed input data, which crashes external library?

I have a java application, which recieves compressed files as input. The application then reads the header information of said files and passes the compressed bytes to an external native library for decompression (JNI). In one of the files we…
MPIchael
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Best practices for when a 3rd party dependency breaks?

I am working in a php project, and our 3rd party dependencies are managed with packagist via composer.json. Pretty standard stuff. Sometimes we run into a situation where a given plugin has some issue, such that we would like to continue to use the…
chiliNUT
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Formal justification for use of third-party libraries

My team and I develop and application which uses a number of third-party libraries to fulfill certain common functions. (It's a Java application and uses a number of Apache Commons libs, Log4j, etc.) I have been asked to justify the use of…
Ian Renton
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Deterministic function shows undeterministic behaviour, how is this possible?

How can a bug could occur on static, fixed input data only "sometimes"? The following is simply an example I have observed, but I am not interested in an answer specific to the GD library. I have some PHP code to render SVG files, utilizing the GD…