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Coredump from GNU make 3.55

#377
From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1989 23:21
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The following makefile causes GNU make 3.55 to abort() and drop core:

foo.a: ($FOO)
	@echo dummy

Backtrace shows:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x12c98 in kill (6870, 4)
#1  0x12c80 in abort ()
#2  0x2e26 in enter_file (name=(char *) 0x263e0 "") (file.c line 80)
#3  0x9de in ar_member_date (name=(char *) 0x277e0 "(OO)") (ar.c line 74)
#4  0x8dee in name_mtime (name=(char *) 0x277e0 "(OO)") (remake.c line 760)
#5  0x8d64 in f_mtime (file=(struct file *) 0x2c3c0) (remake.c line 722)
#6  0x8542 in update_file_1 (file=(struct file *) 0x28f80, depth=0) (remake.c line 353)
#7  0x7ece in update_file (file=(struct file *) 0x28f80, depth=0) (remake.c line 224)
#8  0x7d9a in update_goal_chain (goals=(struct dep *) 0x2d640, makefiles=0) (remake.c line 136)
#9  0x4f6a in main (argc=3, argv=(char **) 0x7fffdb98, envp=(char **) 0x7fffdba8) (main.c line 768)
(gdb) 

//Jyrki
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Subject: Coredump from GNU make 3.55
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Date: 26 Aug 89 23:21:03 GMT
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