Re: [vile] 64-bit crash in internal XML filter

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Rick Sladkey wrote:

> The 64-bit version of vile reveals a previously harmless bug in
> the internal XML-filter.  The bug is that for syntactically
> valid XML files, Num_tags is decremented past zero.  On the
> next pass, in 32-bit the pointer arithmetic wraps around to an
> incorrect but accessible address, but on 64-bit it's a bad pointer
> off by many gigabytes.

thanks

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