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From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: chet@case.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Readline bug causes GDB crash on 64-bit
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45398C0C.9090202@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061020213228.GA14966@nevyn.them.org>

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:10:43PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> GDB on s390x (64-bit) is crashing when you press ctrl-V.
>> This is because xmalloc is used without prototype in scope
>> in _rl_callback_data_alloc (readline/callback.c), and thus
>> the returned pointer is improperly truncated/extended.
>>
>> Fixed by including "xmalloc.h".  Tested on s390x-ibm-linux.
>>
>> What's the policy for readline bugs in GDB?  It is OK to check
>> this patch into GDB, or does it have to go upstream first?
>> (Where is readline upstream?)
> 
> The right thing to do is to send the patch to Chet, and if he accepts
> it for the next readline release, commit it to our copy.  I believe
> bash-maintainers@gnu.org (CC'd) is the right place.

Either that address or bug-readline@gnu.org will work.  But in this
case, someone beat you to it, and the fix is in the recently-released
readline-5.2.

Chet

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-21  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-20 21:10 Ulrich Weigand
2006-10-20 21:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-20 21:36   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-20 21:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-21  2:56   ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2006-10-21  5:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-21 20:48   ` Ulrich Weigand

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