Re: address@hidden: Bug#79091: info: "info --vi-keys libc:exit" causes segfault when you hit 'h']

[Josip Rodin]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:50:27AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > I cannot reproduce this on my machine.  Could you please send a
> > > backtrace printed by a debugger given the core file, or when you run
> > > Info inside a debugger to begin with?
> 
> I will try to look into this, but if someone can reproduce this
> problem and send more information about where it crashes, I'd
> appreciate that.

I was able to reproduce it. Here is the backtrace with info compiled with
debugging info:

(gdb) where
#0  0x400a6fa1 in realloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x805fe7a in xrealloc (pointer=0x8082d28, bytes=15770) at xmalloc.c:65
#2  0x805f94d in message_buffer_resize (length=28) at window.c:1293
#3  0x805fb32 in build_message_buffer (format=0x8063856 "M-x %s\n     %s\n",
    arg1=0x8064b2d, arg2=0x80829c0) at window.c:1376
#4  0x805fd17 in printf_to_message_buffer (
    format=0x8063856 "M-x %s\n     %s\n", arg1=0x8064b2d, arg2=0x80829c0)
    at window.c:1474
#5  0x80506f3 in create_internal_info_help_node (help_is_only_window_p=1)
    at infodoc.c:290
#6  0x8050836 in info_find_or_create_help_window () at infodoc.c:377
#7  0x80508e3 in info_get_help_window (window=0x8072760, count=1, key=104)
    at infodoc.c:415
#8  0x805c4b0 in info_dispatch_on_key (key=104, map=0x8071218)
    at session.c:4598
#9  0x80564df in info_read_and_dispatch () at session.c:233
#10 0x80563f7 in info_session () at session.c:181
#11 0x8056346 in begin_info_session_with_error (initial_node=0x806f268,
    format=0x80641a0 "No menu item `%s' in node `%s'.", arg1=0xbffff969,
    arg2=0x80726d0) at session.c:151
#12 0x804fa98 in main (argc=3, argv=0xbffff7f4) at info.c:403

BTW I'm running glibc 2.1.3 here.

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