On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:16:01PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > malloc, you say? I have build failures in XFree4-clients because
> > rman coredumps and I have a backtrace full of free() frames...
> >
> > Coincidence?
>
> Some of the XFree86 utilities contain malloc bugs..rman in particular
> has been dumping core on certain ports for a couple of years. I tried
> to track it down once but couldn't find it.
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The attached patch fixes rman. The faulting case is "\\\0". The '\0'
was handled in the default case for escaped characters, which also
incremented the pointer p beyond the terminating '\0'.
Oh: this goes to devel/imake-4 of course.
--
Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- ../extras/rman/rman.c.orig Tue Jul 15 23:53:53 2003
+++ ../extras/rman/rman.c Tue Jul 15 23:44:21 2003
@@ -4104,6 +4104,9 @@
}
}
break;
+ case 0:
+ /* ignore */
+ break;
default: /* unknown escaped character */
sputchar(*p++);
}
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