Re: possible bug in libXt or libXaw

Mark Geisert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin.xfree
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Marco Atzeri writes:
> this is the pointer causing the segfault
> 
> (gdb) p form->form.horiz_base
> $2 = (Widget) 0x6275705f6779632f
> 
> while similar pointers have a much smaller address,
> 
> (gdb) p w
> $5 = (Widget) 0x60014bd50
> 
> so it that an assignment not clearing the upper
> portion of the pointer.

$2 is not a pointer that needed partial clearing, it's a character string
"/cyg_pub".  Possibly a buffer overrun somewhere?  Hope the string fragment
points the way to somebody.

..mark


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