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From: cmft552@HERMES.CHPC.UTEXAS.EDU (Christopher Marshall)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Bug in make-3.57
Message-ID: <8911292159.AA25311@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 89 21:59:19 GMT
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Make crashed in the routine free() when using the shell function.  The
problem was traced to a pointer being incremented and then passed to
the free() routine.  The context diffs to function.c are as follows:

*** function.c1.1    Wed Nov 29 15:47:39 1989
--- function.c1.2    Wed Nov 29 15:48:07 1989
***************
*** 417,421 ****
                if (i > 0 && buffer[i - 1] == '\n')
                  buffer[--i] = '\0';
!               for (p = buffer; (p = index (buffer, '\n')) != 0; buffer = ++p)
                  *p = ' ';
                o = variable_buffer_output (o, buffer, i);
--- 417,421 ----
                if (i > 0 && buffer[i - 1] == '\n')
                  buffer[--i] = '\0';
!               for (p = buffer; (p = index (buffer, '\n')) != 0; )
                  *p = ' ';
                o = variable_buffer_output (o, buffer, i);

Christopher Marshall
cmft552@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu