* David Mosberger-Tang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: mozilla-firefox > Version: 1.0.2-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > > Firefox often crashes when running update-mozilla-firefox-chrome (or > mozilla-firefox -register). In particular, this currently happens > reliably after installing any locale package (such as > mozilla-firefox-locale-de-de). The root-cause of this problem is that > XPCOM calls with more than 7 arguments end up passing garbage in > arguments 8-N which often leads to segfaults. The attached patch > fixes the problem. I checked the upstream mozilla CVS tree and the > problem has been fixed there, too, albeit in a different manner. Both > solutions should be fine (the upstream solution is probably slightly > more efficient and if you prefer to use it, copying files > xptcstubs_asm_ipf64.s and xptcstubs_ipf64.cpp is probably all it > takes).
Any idea where the upstream bug report and patch are? Not to disparage your patch, I'm sure it's fine, I'd just rather stay consistent with upstream as much as possible. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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