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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:35:13 +0100
> From: Josip Rodin <address@hidden>
> 
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:25:47AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I tried to do this on 2 different systems, one of them Debian GNU/Linux, 
> > and Info didn't crash.
> 
> What was the package version?

I tried both stock 4.0 and one which has all the patches I sent since
4.0 was released.  (All of those patches were posted here.)

> I just tried it[1], and it didn't crash. So it appears that either the
> aforementioned patch is causing it, or my configure options, which are:
> 
> CFLAGS := -O2 ./configure --prefix=/usr \
> --infodir='$${prefix}/share/info' --mandir='$${prefix}/share/man'
> 
> Or something else I can't think of :)

The crashes look like malloc chain corruption, so the most important
factor is library implementation.