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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To: (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) <asami@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/boehm-gc/patches patch-aa
Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org,
	cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org,
	Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>
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Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
>  * From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>
> 
>  * This breaks w3m.
>  * 
>  * Reverting this patch solves the segfaulting of mktable under CURRENT and
>  * 4.0 and it solves the problem of generating bogus entries under
>  * 3.4-STABLE.  It would parse tagtable.tab and generate a tagtable.c which
>  * contained bogus characters which would cause the build to fail.
> 
> This is not the behavior I'm seeing.  Before, building of w3m was
> dying with this error:
> 
> ===
>  :
> cc -O -pipe  -I/usr/local/include -I. -o mktable mktable.o hash.o  -L/usr/local/lib -L. -lindep -lgc -lm  -lncurses
> ./mktable 100 tagtable.tab > tagtable.c
> cc -O -pipe  -I/usr/local/include -I. -c tagtable.c
> tagtable.c:8: syntax error before character 0340
> tagtable.c:11: syntax error before character 0320
>  :
> ===

Yes, that's the error that was reported in the PR (ports/17344).
Since the bug would cause bad pointers to be freed and such things,
the failure might be pretty unpredictable.

> now that I've reverted patch-aa to rev. 1.4 and rebuilt the boehm-gc
> package, this is what I get.
> 
> ===
>  :
> ./mktable 100 tagtable.tab > tagtable.c
> Segmentation fault - core dumped
> *** Error code 139

Hmm, that I don't understand.  The guy who filed the PR said that
reverting patch-aa made it all work for him.  He's running
3.4-stable from March 4, by the way.

John


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