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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: mail in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
In-Reply-To: <361CF008.DEDF45BD@dal.net> from Studded at "Oct 8, 98 10:02:00 am"
To: Studded@dal.net (Studded)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:54:19 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: mike@smith.net.au, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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Studded writes:
> > Sorry, I meant "replace all occurences of 'msgvec' in lex.c with
> > 'msgfoo', then recompile".  You might want to make it static too, ie
> > change line 158 to 'static int *msgvec;'.
> 
> 	You know, this is what I get for doing stuff like this late at night. I
> sed'ed msgvec to msgfoo, checked it to make sure it worked properly,
> recompiled, and retested. What I didn't do was 'mv lex.sed lex.c' :) 
> Anyway, now that I've actually done that, it works just fine. No
> warnings, and no crash in gdb even with AJ -> /etc/malloc.conf. 
> 
> 	This code is the same in both branches, so now that we know (?) what
> the problem is, if it's changed it should probably be changed in both
> branches. 

Well, it looks like you've solved the symptom rather than the problem.
Do I understand that this happens when you open a mailbox with specific
contents? If so, can you create the smallest mailbox that triggers the
bug and (uuencode and) mail it to me?

Thanks,
-Archie

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