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Re: [RP] Bug in editor.c?


From: alex
Subject: Re: [RP] Bug in editor.c?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:07:23 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.11

hi,

Shawn Betts (2006-02-26, 19:20):
> alex <address@hidden> writes:
>$
> > hi all,
> >
> > i think i found a bug in editor.c.
> >
> > I got random segfaults on my boxes, patch is self explanatory.
> >
> > greets
> >     -alex
> >$    
>$
> Hi alex,
>$
> I Couldn't see how your patch fixed a segfault,$

The old crappy loop wrote to buf[-1] ... buf[-x], this happend when 
inserting str's longer than 1, afair... (e.g. tab completion)

I guess the segfault thingy happened due to openbsd's malloc 
implementation.

> but the for loop I
> thought was weird and dirty. So I replaced it with a memmove.$

Thanks

> Let me
> know if you're still experiencing segfaults.
>$

Nope, works fine.

greets
        -alex




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