Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:00:14 -0800 (PST) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/45744: /usr/bin/makeinfo sometimes segfaults Message-ID: <200211270000.gAR00Ekq047132@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/45744; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
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Subject: Re: gnu/45744: /usr/bin/makeinfo sometimes segfaults
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:57:32 -0800
It would appear that the GNU Project's maintainer of the GNU texinfo
package (which includes the `makeinfo' utility) concurs with my
opinion that `makeinfo' contained a bug that could cause segfaults.
It would also appear that he concurs with the patch for `makeinfo'
that I sent him.
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From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
To: rfg@monkeys.com
Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Segfault in makeinfo in GNU texinfo-4.3 package (fix included)
I have been experiencing segmentation faults in makeinfo for quite a
long time now... over a year. Please see:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=45598
Ah. Sorry, I wasn't aware of this.
Obviously, it *is* possible for name_index_alist[i] to have a NULL value,
Indeed. I moved the undefindex call after the conditional just as you
suggested.
Thanks much for the report and fix!
~karl
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