Re: branch-1_4 allocation overflow

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According to Eric Blake on 10/25/2006 10:45 PM:
> Whoops.  This wrapped around to a 0-size allocation, diverted output to
> the wrong location, and crashed on exit, rather than properly failing (at
> least on my machine, with 32-bit size_t, and less than 2 GB of memory)
> with a more appropriate memory exhausted.

Likewise for this, although since -H is a no-op on head, I'm not sure if
it needs porting:

$ m4 -H $((1<<30))
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

2006-10-25  Eric Blake  <[email protected]>

	* src/symtab.c (symtab_init): Avoid size_t overflow.

Index: src/symtab.c
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RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/src/Attic/symtab.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1.2.13
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1.2.13 symtab.c
- --- src/symtab.c        30 Jul 2006 23:46:51 -0000      1.1.1.1.2.13
+++ src/symtab.c        26 Oct 2006 04:54:15 -0000
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ symtab_init (void)
   size_t i;
   symbol **s;

- -  s = symtab = (symbol **) xmalloc (hash_table_size * sizeof (symbol *));
+  s = symtab = (symbol **) xnmalloc (hash_table_size, sizeof (symbol *));

   for (i = 0; i < hash_table_size; i++)
     s[i] = NULL;

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             [email protected]
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