Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:30:01 -0700 (PDT) From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/1153: fmt segfaults Message-ID: <199604221730.KAA20742@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/1153; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/1153: fmt segfaults
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 16:24:24 -0700
>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.
Oh! Sorry about that, yes, I was assuming 2.1-stable. Nevermind. :-)
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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