Hello,
while upgrading from texinfo version 4.11 to 4.12 I noticed that
install-info crashes with some info files. Debugging it I found that in
install-info.c in the function split_entry() was tried to strdup() a
pointer that was previously found to be invalid. I attached a diff that
corrects this.
Regards,
Thomas Thorberger
---
Where bug was observed:
OS: Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 with gcc-4.3.0
Info file: gnat_ugn_unw.info (from gcc-4.3.0 distribution)
install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.12
--- texinfo-4.12/install-info/install-info.c.orig 2008-04-30 11:34:00.383995000 +0200
+++ texinfo-4.12/install-info/install-info.c 2008-04-30 11:34:12.264410000 +0200
@@ -1455,11 +1455,11 @@
if (!ptr)
{
size_t length = strlen (entry);
if (length == 0)
return;
- *name = strdup (ptr);
+ *name = strdup (entry);
*name_len = length + 1;
return;
}
/* The name is everything up to and including the period. */
