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From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
Subject: Re: bin/1153: fmt segfaults
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The following reply was made to PR bin/1153; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
To: davidg@Root.COM
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/1153: fmt segfaults
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:54:09 -0400 (EDT)

 David Greenman writes:
 
 >    I don't get it. How can "cp" be NULL? It's assigned to "linebuf" which is
 > allocated off the stack:
 
 >         char linebuf[BUFSIZ], canonb[BUFSIZ];
 
 >    ...linebuf can never be NULL.
 
 	Could you be looking at the source for the 2.1 version of
 fmt?  The one in -current has been rewritten to use a
 reallocating buffer for linebuf.
 
 
 
 -matt
 
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 Matthew C. Mead
 
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