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Re: Re^2: On-the-fly all-languages syntax highlighting

by SavannahLion (Pilgrim)
on Dec 17, 2003 at 06:16 UTC ( [id://315227]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: On-the-fly all-languages syntax highlighting
in thread On-the-fly all-languages syntax highlighting

Using B (probably with some backend such as B::Terse, I can't imagine you want the bare B module) would only be a security issue if you want to highlight code submitted to your site by anyone, and that's not because of B itself so much as because using B requires Perl to have compiled the code, which is inseparably connected with the possibly of having code run at compile-time.

That's exactly the problem I'm worried about. The site is open ended and allows text to be uploaded. I mentioned B since I saw that it appeared to have some C specific routines that might be utilized for what I want. I toyed with that idea for all of 40 seconds when I realized that B is ultimately designed to compile C and that someone might be able to invoke the compiler through some bug somewhere I wasn't aware of. A risk I didn't want to take.

About Text::VimColor. I looked over the documentation for Text::VimColor and I don't think this is a viable alternative for my needs. The wya I figure it, I suppose I could get away caching the output (I already have stubbed code for exactly that sort of thing), but am I correct in understanding that this module utilizes Vim?

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Re^4: On-the-fly all-languages syntax highlighting
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 17, 2003 at 10:01 UTC

    B is ultimately designed to compile C and that someone might be able to invoke the compiler through some bug somewhere I wasn’t aware of.

    Uh… not exactly. B has nothing to do with C compilation, and even B::CC has no code to invoke a compiler.

    What I was referring to is BEGIN blocks, use, and the like.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

      Uh.. not exactly. B has nothing to do with C compilation, and even B::CC has no code to invoke a compiler.

      . Oh, OK, I think I understand now. When I read,

      This compiler backend takes Perl source and generates C source code corresponding to the internal structures that perl uses to run your program. When the generated C source is compiled and run, it cuts out the time which perl would have taken to load and parse your program into its internal semi-compiled form.

      That put me under the impression that it generated and compiled C code. I kept wondering about that blurb near the bottom about "some compilers." I just didn't put two and two together, my bad.

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Re: Re: Re^2: On-the-fly all-languages syntax highlighting
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 17, 2003 at 08:29 UTC
    but am I correct in understanding that this module utilizes Vim?

    From Text::VimColor docs:

    Text::VimColor - syntax color text in HTML or XML using Vim

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