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Article #2190Re: Epoch 3.2 on the DECstation (again)
From: Alan M. Carroll
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 1991 02:29
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 1991 02:29
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In article <9102152214.AA21766@mijen.inel.gov>, dob@INEL.GOV (Dave Brooks) writes:
>
> Epoch crashes in line 100 of xresource.c, in the
> make_Xresource function, on this line of code:
>
> xr_free_list = XXRESOURCE(xr_free_list->next);
>
> printing xr_free_list from within gdb says that it is an invalid address,
> out of bounds. is there anything i can do to fix this? does someone on
> the Epoch team, or another expert, have a clue?
I thought I'd sent you a fix on this. This is a known bug, which only
occurs for systems with DATA_SEG_BITS defined. The fix is to change
line 99 in xresource.c from
if (xr_free_list)
to
if (XUINT(xr_free_list))
--
Alan M. Carroll "I hate shopping with the reality-impaired"
Epoch Development Team - Susan
CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!cs.uiuc.edu!carroll
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,8e18741492513a5d X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-02-15 19:23:41 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uiucdcs!carroll From: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Subject: Re: Epoch 3.2 on the DECstation (again) Message-ID: <1991Feb16.022907.8258@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 Feb 91 02:29:07 GMT References: <9102152214.AA21766@mijen.inel.gov> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) Distribution: gnu Organization: Technophiles Inc. - Engineers with Attitude Lines: 25