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Date:      Mon, 26 Jul 1999 03:20:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/12801: nvi infinite recursion
Message-ID:  <199907261020.DAA37774@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/12801; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: archer@lucky.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/12801: nvi infinite recursion
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 12:15:53 +0200

 > The simultanious usage of the vi editor options 'comment' (skip leading
 > comments) and 'leftright' (do left-right scrolling) may lead to the
 > infinite recursion: on src/contrib/nvi/vi/vs_refresh.c:626 vs_paint()
 
 In the current sources, it's line 696. We're failing a sanity check,
 which causes an abort(3) if the program is compiled with -DDEBUG.
 
 Your How-To-Repeat is solid. I'll take a look.
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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