FYI, when a diff is "large-ish" (~4k lines will do
it), v1.10.7 'cvs diff' coredumps (cvs itself
apparently, not rcs or diff). This is with RH 6.2
downloaded in CD form with apparently no source
(/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0).
I tried cvs 1.9 (compiled by me) and plain diff -
both work ok.
Bill Ross
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% cvs diff cmdproc.pc
Index: cmdproc.pc
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
% gdb `which cvs` core
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)...
Core was generated by `cvs diff cmdproc.pc'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/kerberos/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/kerberos/lib/libkrb5.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/kerberos/lib/libk5crypto.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/kerberos/lib/libcom_err.so.3...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
#0 chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x401cad60, p=0x80d6510) at malloc.c:3049
3049 malloc.c: No such file or directory.(gdb) where
#0 chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x401cad60, p=0x80d6510) at malloc.c:3049
#1 0x40135fba in __libc_free (mem=0x80d6518) at malloc.c:3023
#2 0x807ced2 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#3 0x805b5bd in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#4 0x807e784 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#5 0x806122a in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#6 0x807e55e in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#7 0x807f03a in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#8 0x806122a in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#9 0x807e11c in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#10 0x805af99 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#11 0x806c9db in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#12 0x400f49cb in __libc_start_main (main=0x806bee0 <strcpy+136076>, argc=3,
argv=0xbffffcb4, init=0x804a134, fini=0x80ab0ac <fstat+88>,
rtld_fini=0x4000ae60 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffcac)
at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92
(gdb)
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