Re: daily: vim problem again Off Topic Praise

[Joshua Branson]

Paul Dufresne <dufresnep@zoho.com> writes:

> ---- Le ven., 26 févr. 2021 23:29:01 -0500 Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@debian.org> 
> écrit ----
>>
>  > I'd advise you to not delve too deeply into malloc. This is likely a
>  > buffer overflow that then corrupts the (inline) state maintained by
>  > malloc, so you really need to be looking at vim.
>  >
>  > Jess
>
> I have an idea.
> I could replace the assert by a printf of the address of the pointer.
>
> Then if I could generate a map of vim, I could figure out approximately that 
> the buffer overflowing is just before that address?
>
> Frankly, not knowing exactly what I am doing... ;-)

You may not know exactly what you're doing, but you are currently the
world's leading expert in fixing this particular bug.  :) No offense
meant to other Hurd developers.  They are just busy addressing other
issues.

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