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Date:      Wed, 07 Oct 1998 21:55:16 -0700
From:      Studded <Studded@dal.net>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mail in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
Message-ID:  <361C45B4.6A0C8A38@dal.net>
References:  <199810080252.TAA29463@bubba.whistle.com>

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Archie Cobbs wrote:

> Hmm.. is your system elm? Maybe there's a bug in mail that's always
> been there, but which is only now exhibited with elf.

	It's 2.2.7-Stable from 9/20.
 
> A quick look doesn't reveal any obvious logical bugs. The only way this
> can be happening is if some code is corrupting the "msgvec" variable
> in lex.c. "msgvec" may just be the unlucky victim of some other random
> memory corruption.

	I very rarely see that error on other things, but this is the first
time it's been reliably repeatable. 

Doug
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***           Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network          ***

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