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From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Abend when searching in vi-mode
Message-ID: <571.nlhp3@oracle.nl>
Date: 12 Dec 89 14:55:03 GMT
Reply-To: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: ORACLE Europe, The Netherlands
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Bash 1.04 will abend (wonderful IBM term :-) if you search in vi-mode.
This is due to a wrong alloca argument.  The context diffs for vi_mode.c
are below and have been sent to Brian.

*** vi_mode.c.old	Tue Dec 12 15:43:39 1989
--- vi_mode.c	Tue Dec 12 15:46:00 1989
***************
*** 78,84 ****
    /* Reuse the line input buffer to read the search string. */
    the_line[0] = 0;
    rl_end = rl_point = 0;
!   p = (char *)alloca (2 + rl_prompt ? strlen (rl_prompt) : 0);
  
    sprintf (p, "%s%c", rl_prompt ? rl_prompt : "", key);
  
--- 78,84 ----
    /* Reuse the line input buffer to read the search string. */
    the_line[0] = 0;
    rl_end = rl_point = 0;
!   p = (char *)alloca (2 + (rl_prompt ? strlen (rl_prompt) : 0));
  
    sprintf (p, "%s%c", rl_prompt ? rl_prompt : "", key);
  
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