Re: Minor patch to correct buffer overrun

Chris Sutcliffe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 16 August 2010 16:53, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00403a03 in find_directory (name=<value optimized out>) at
> ../make-3.82/dir.c:537
> 537                   else if (!strcmp(fs_type, "FAT"))
> (gdb) bt full
> #0  0x00403a03 in find_directory (name=<value optimized out>) at
> ../make-3.82/dir.c:537
>        dc = Cannot access memory at address 0x63726dcf
> (gdb)

As previously stated, I'm no GDB expert, but does the fact that GDB
indicates that 'dc' could not access memory mean that the issue is
with 'dc' (which is a malloc)?

Chris

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