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From: chet@kiwi.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: memory leak, also trouble with echo (bash 0.99)
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Date: 16 Jun 89 19:51:53 GMT
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In article <8906160229.AA05556@cit-vlsi> andy@cit-vlsi.ai.mit.edu (Andy Fyfe) writes:
>[running on a sun3, sunos 3.5]

>On the suns,
>	$ echo '\'
>	\UUUU
>
>Where do the U's come from?

The U's are the range-checking bytes written after a block of space by the
bash malloc().  It would appear that you have a pointer problem somewhere;
however, I cannot reproduce it.

This particular example works fine on my vax (running Ultrix 3.0), my sun-3
running sunos 3.5, my IBM-RT running AOS 4.3, and my other IBM-RT running
AIX 2.2.1:

cwns1$ echo '\'
\
cwns1$ 

Chet


Chet Ramey     Network Services Group, CWRU    chet@cwjcc.INS.CWRU.Edu

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