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Date:      Mon, 5 Jul 1999 01:20:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/10064: /bin/sh called from make dumps core 
Message-ID:  <199907050820.BAA85493@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/10064; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/10064: /bin/sh called from make dumps core 
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 10:19:13 +0200

 On Sun, 04 Jul 1999 12:44:15 +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
 
 > Hmm so let's find out which patch makes it dissapear.  After building
 > several sh:s from the RELENG_2_2 branch i found out the 2.2.7R sh
 > dies and the 2.2.8R sh doesn't, and the crucial patch is in parser.c
 > (0parser228 below).  undoing that patch in the 3.2-stable sh as well
 > as in the -current sh cause both to crash, and that patch doesn't
 > look like it could fix a stack bug, only mask it by using the stack
 > differently, right?
 
 Surely one way to fix a stack bug is to use the stack differently? :-)
 
 I think the important thing, as you've discovered for yourself, is that
 it's fixed in 2.2.8-RELEASE, 3.2-STABLE and 4.0-CURRENT. Thanks for the
 feedback.
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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