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Re: another core dump to be fixed before 1.4.5


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: another core dump to be fixed before 1.4.5
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:29:43 -0600
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According to Eric Blake on 6/2/2006 7:56 PM:
> 
> Good thing I waited - the previous version of the patch crashed when
> doing traceoff without arguments, since I modified a callback funtion
> to hack_all_symbols to modify the symbol table while traversing it,
> ultimately dereferencing freed memory.  This followon patch solves
> that issue; I will still wait a couple days before applying both patches
> together, unless I get feedback first.
> 
> 2006-06-02  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * src/symtab.c (hack_all_symbols): Allow certain modifications of
>       the symbol table during traversal.
>       * src/builtin.c (set_trace): Replace SYMBOL_DELETE with
>       SYMBOL_POPDEF, since only the latter is safe with
>       hack_all_symbols.

FYI: I applied this as well.  A followon patch is still in the works.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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