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"info --vi-keys foo" inciting a segfault in info
From: |
Josip Rodin |
Subject: |
"info --vi-keys foo" inciting a segfault in info |
Date: |
Sun, 1 Apr 2001 13:14:08 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.2.5i |
Hi,
Adam Olsen wrote:
> When using the command "info --vi-keys libc:exit" hitting 'h' causes it to
> segfault.
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> corruption of the malloc memory chain, and that means the bug is somewhere
> else, not in the chain of calls shown by the backtrace. Since I still
> cannot reproduce the crash, it's hard to find that other pace.
>
> some code somewhere is corrupting the memory chain, and causes malloc/free
> to crash in random places...
>
> But --vi-keys could also be not really relevant: it might be that the bug
> is somewhere else, and only turns up with --vi-keys because the
> additional argv[] element changes the memory-allocation pattern in the
> libc startup code.
Has any progress been made diagnosing this bug? Just wondering...
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