Re: texinfo 4.6.91: fix broken xmalloc
Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Mar 2004 23:03:05 +0100
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[email protected] (Karl Berry) writes: > I'm more interested in real life than what standards committees say > or don't say. This _is_ real life. install-info just aborts here because it is passing garbage to malloc. > xmalloc.c hasn't essentially changed for many years. Why is the problem > only appearing now? Because it is invoking undefined behaviour. So it can hit you any time. Just by using a different compiler, for example. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [email protected] SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ [email protected] http://ff0.org/mailman/listinfo/texinfo-pretest