Re: Bug in texinfo 4.0

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Frank Naumann wrote:

> *** texinfo-4.0/makeinfo/multi.c.orig Tue Aug 17 23:06:56 1999
> --- texinfo-4.0/makeinfo/multi.c      Mon Sep 17 10:26:24 2001
> ***************
> *** 199,205 ****
> 
>     do
>       {
> !       if (**params == '{' && (*params)[-1] != '@')
>           brace_level++;
>         else if (**params == '}' && (*params)[-1] != '@')
>           brace_level--;
> --- 199,205 ----
> 
>     do
>       {
> !       if (**params == '{' && ((*params == start) || ((*params)[-1] != '@')))
>           brace_level++;
>         else if (**params == '}' && (*params)[-1] != '@')
>           brace_level--;
> 
> 
> (*params)[-1] is an illegal access in the first do { } while loop because
> it points to an xmalloc'ed area (if I see this correct). This produced
> sometimes failures and wrong error messages here.

Can you post a Texinfo source which causes error messages and other 
failures due to this?