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ar core dump

#1606
From: "Karl Berry."
Date: Tue, 16 May 1989 20:53
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I am not exactly sure how to report this, since I doubt you want to see the 
30-odd object files. This is on a Sun 3 running 3.4, ar version of Mar 5.

The problem is just that strcmp is called with a null pointer, as the
following backtrace shows.

Please let me know what other information I could give you that would help.

gdb $gnu/bin/ar core
Reading symbol data from /usr/local/gnu/bin/ar...done.
Core file is from "ar".
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x6650 in strcmp ()
#1  0x3c94 in update_symdefs (map=(struct mapelt *) 0x25af8, archive_indesc=3) (ar.c line 1523)
#2  0x2e0e in write_archive (map=(struct mapelt *) 0x25af8, appendflag=0) (ar.c line 819)
#3  0x33e2 in replace_members () (ar.c line 1124)
#4  0x2342 in main (argc=35, argv=(char **) 0xefff1b0) (ar.c line 363)
(gdb) up
#1  0x3c94 in update_symdefs (map=(struct mapelt *) 0x25af8, archive_indesc=3) (ar.c line 1523)
1523		  if (!strcmp (tail->info.name, "__.SYMDEF"))
(gdb) p tail
$1 = (struct mapelt *) 0x25b40
(gdb) p *tail
$2 = {info = {name = 0x0, mode = 33204, date = 611351502, size = 63437, uid = 1377, gid = 6107, offset = 17572, data_offset = 17632, new_offset = 0, symdefs = 0x0, nsymdefs = 0, string_size = 0}, next = 0x25b8c}
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From: karl@mote.umb.edu ("Karl Berry.")
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Subject: ar core dump
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Date: 16 May 89 20:53:10 GMT
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