On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:43:37AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > 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. > > [cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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]
The print/gv port has patch-ad to work around another rman bug. This bug is only exposed by malloc debugging. Kris
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