Re: out of memory crash when accessing broken .la files

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Dirk,

Thanks for the report.

* Dirk Mueller wrote on Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 01:17:34PM CEST:
> 
> when libtool .la files contain NUL bytes due to a corruption, there is a very 
> ugly memory eating loop triggered in libltdl. the problem is that it believes 
> the buffer was too small, and keeps resizing it until the machine dies (or 
> ulimits kill the process). 

Could you post such a corrupted .la file, preferably gzip'ed so that it
won't be harmed by mail transport?  How did it get corrupted BTW?

Thanks,
Ralf