We do have the AOO415 branch! :)

> On Nov 18, 2017, at 2:11 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
> 
> There is a bug in my LinkManager changes. Specifically, I made the totally 
> newbie mistake of accessing memory based on a pointer without allowing for it 
> being null, and it turns out it can be null :-(
> 
> The primary report for this is 
> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127581, "Writer crashes after 
> copying all content".
> 
> I would have expected the failure to be some form of access violation. 
> However, recent e-mails have convinced me that some paths include catch 
> blocks that conceal all exceptions, so it may be the root cause of other 
> problems.
> 
> I have checked a fix into the trunk, revision 1814994. However, trunk has 
> other changes.
> 
> The simplest way to check whether other bug reports are due to this is to 
> build a version that is identical to 4.1.4 except for the one fix. Anything 
> that works with that but not with 4.1.4 is a duplicate. Of course, the more 
> duplicates we have the worse the problem and the more urgent a fix.
> 
> I am going ahead and doing the fix in my 4.1.5 working copy, but activating 
> 4.1.5 is a broader decision.
> 
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