Bug list return me error, so posting here hoping someone watchs it. A suspicious piece of code.
The variable nDummy is not initialized *(1)* in the function but its pointer *(2)* is passed to *vdbePmaReaderInit* that increments *(3)* its value. static int vdbeMergeEngineLevel0( SortSubtask *pTask, /* Sorter task to read from */ int nPMA, /* Number of PMAs to read */ i64 *piOffset, /* IN/OUT: Readr offset in pTask->file */ MergeEngine **ppOut /* OUT: New merge-engine */ ){ MergeEngine *pNew; /* Merge engine to return */ i64 iOff = *piOffset; int i; int rc = SQLITE_OK; *ppOut = pNew = vdbeMergeEngineNew(nPMA); if( pNew==0 ) rc = SQLITE_NOMEM; for(i=0; i<nPMA && rc==SQLITE_OK; i++){ i64 *nDummy*; *-------------------------------------------------------------(1)* PmaReader *pReadr = &pNew->aReadr[i]; rc = vdbePmaReaderInit(pTask, &pTask->file, iOff, pReadr, &*nDummy*); *-----(2)* iOff = pReadr->iEof; } if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){ vdbeMergeEngineFree(pNew); *ppOut = 0; } *piOffset = iOff; return rc; } static int vdbePmaReaderInit( SortSubtask *pTask, /* Task context */ SorterFile *pFile, /* Sorter file to read from */ i64 iStart, /* Start offset in pFile */ PmaReader *pReadr, /* PmaReader to populate */ i64 **pnByte* /* IN/OUT: Increment this value by PMA size */ ){ int rc; assert( pFile->iEof>iStart ); assert( pReadr->aAlloc==0 && pReadr->nAlloc==0 ); assert( pReadr->aBuffer==0 ); assert( pReadr->aMap==0 ); rc = vdbePmaReaderSeek(pTask, pReadr, pFile, iStart); if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){ u64 nByte; /* Size of PMA in bytes */ rc = vdbePmaReadVarint(pReadr, &nByte); pReadr->iEof = pReadr->iReadOff + nByte; **pnByte* += nByte; *------------------------------------------------------(3)* } if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){ rc = vdbePmaReaderNext(pReadr); } return rc; } Regards