Bug#627471: [bug-gv] heisenbug disabling BBox

2011-08-03 Thread Markus Steinborn
Hi Bernhard, Bernhard R. Link wrote: I've finally found the bug: Excellent work. Thank you very much. I've just applied your patches from yesterday and I updated every call of sec_sscanf having %s in its format descriptor to include the buffer length. Greetings Markus Steinborn GNU g

Bug#627471: [bug-gv] heisenbug disabling BBox

2011-08-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Bernhard R. Link [110803 13:06]: > In other words: I'm totally at loss how this effect can > cause this. I will try to run it in the debugger with some > read watchpoints for the changed parts to see where it can > have a difference, but I've finally found the bug: ps.c is using some sec_

Bug#627471: [bug-gv] heisenbug disabling BBox

2011-08-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Bernhard R. Link [110803 12:17]: > Looking at dsc_strncmp I see nothing that could explain why > a difference like that could have effects like that. > As it does this funny malloc/free every time (no idea why > it does that as it could just to strncasecmp(s1, s2, n-1)) > that might me