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> From: davida@isil.ai.mit.edu (David Axmark)
> Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug

> Another smaller bug.
> If patsubst is used without a % in the pattern as in the following makefile.

> all:;	echo $(patsubst /,, $(dir doo/ddd))

> On my system make loops on this makefile and takes all my memory... 

Here's a fix, which includes your patches to function.c (yours were reversed
normal diffs - context diffs are preferable).  The first hunk is the fix for
looping, the rest are your fix for freeing wrong memory.

RCS file: src/RCS/function.c,v
retrieving revision 3.56
diff -c -r3.56 src/function.c
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a08524	Wed Sep 27 16:14:13 1989
--- src/function.c	Wed Sep 27 15:49:59 1989
***************
*** 67,73 ****
  	  /* Struck out.  Output the rest of the string that is
  	     no longer to be replaced.  */
  	  o = variable_buffer_output (o, subst, slen);
! 	  continue;
  	}
  
        /* Advance T past the string to be replaced.  */
--- 67,75 ----
  	  /* Struck out.  Output the rest of the string that is
  	     no longer to be replaced.  */
  	  o = variable_buffer_output (o, subst, slen);
! 	  /* Advance T past the string to be replaced.  */
! 	  t = p + slen;
!   	  continue;
  	}
  
        /* Advance T past the string to be replaced.  */
***************
*** 860,866 ****
  	BADARGS ("word");
        text = expand_argument (text, p);
  
!       p = expand_argument (p + 1, end);
  
        /* Check the first argument.  */
        for (p2 = text; *p2 != '\0'; ++p2)
--- 862,869 ----
  	BADARGS ("word");
        text = expand_argument (text, p);
  
!       p3 = expand_argument (p + 1, end);
!       p = p3;
  
        /* Check the first argument.  */
        for (p2 = text; *p2 != '\0'; ++p2)
***************
*** 881,887 ****
  	o = variable_buffer_output (o, p, len);
  
        free (text);
!       free (p);
        break;
  
      case function_words:
--- 884,890 ----
  	o = variable_buffer_output (o, p, len);
  
        free (text);
!       free (p3);
        break;
  
      case function_words:


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