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From: mah@hpuviea.UUCP (Michael Haberler)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: v05i077: gnu diff for MSDOS
Summary: fix for bug with free()'ing a string in use
Keywords: diff gnu MSDOS
Message-ID: <835@hpuviea.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 09:11:23 GMT
References: <13228@ncoast.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Vienna,Austria
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If you have a free() which overwrites malloc()'ed storage, like Microsoft
C, then comment out the statement

	free(inf[dir_arg].name);

around line 497 of file diff.c. Otherwise, if the second file argument to
diff is a directory, the filename in a context diff gets mangled.
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