[aspell] Re: Major bug in aspell world length handling

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Aaron Sherman wrote:

> Am I doing something wrong? Is anyone using aspell under Solaris? I try to 
> spell-check a file using the "-a" option (as I'm calling this from a 
> program), and it segfaults. I run gdb on it, and sure enough metaphone.cc 
> creates a variable called "char wname[60]" and tries to put each word into 
> it. If the word is larger than 60 characters, BOOM! I can't even see how 
> this is Solaris-specific.
> 
> Granted, words longer than 60 characters are... rare, but not everything in 
> a text file is going to be a valid word. I routinely see aspell crashing 
> because of this.

You are absolutly right.  I will look into it this weekend.  It has never
come up in my use of aspell.

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