On 3/9/20 2:15 PM, Edmond Orignac wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> the patch is working on Ubuntu 64bits. dtksh does not coredump anymore
> when using XmTextFieldGetString or XmTextGetString.
>
> E.
>
>

Thanks, merged to master.

-jon

> Le 08/03/2020 à 22:09, Jon Trulson a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please try the attached patch and let me know if it works for you. 
>>
>> -jon
>>
>> On 3/8/20 1:44 AM, Edmond Orignac wrote:
>>>
>>> I hope I am not wasting too much of your time with this, but I have
>>> tested the XmTextGetString x $WIDGET function of dtksh on a 32bit
>>> Intel computer running Slackware 14.2. I have found that there was
>>> no core dumps when calling this function contrarily to the case of
>>> Ubuntu 18.04 on 64 bit Intel . This was with the same CDE 2.3.1a
>>> (devel) version with the same fr_FR.UTF-8 locale on both systems.
>>> The only obvious difference is that Slackware uses Motif 2.3.5 while
>>> Ubuntu has Motif 2.3.8. 
>>>
>>> I was probably wrong to worry about a regression. It is more likely
>>> that XmTextGetString works well on 32bit Intel but has some issue
>>> with 64bit Intel.  
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 01/03/2020 à 02:36, Jon Trulson a écrit :
>>>> On 2/29/20 4:38 AM, Edmond Orignac wrote:
>>>>> I have noticed something that seems odd with the functions
>>>>> XmTextGetString and XmTextFieldGetString.
>>>>>
>>>>> When these functions are called to read the text typed in an
>>>>> XmText widget, they cause a segmentation fault. However, using
>>>>> XtGetValues instead avoids the segmentation fault.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the impression this is a new behavior as I have a script
>>>>> that was using XmTextGetString that was not segfaulting in the
>>>>> previous versions of CDE. This does not seem locale related,
>>>>> segmentation fault
>>>>>
>>>>> happens both with the fr_FR and the C locales.
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I misusing these functions or is it a regression in dtksh ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can't say whether this is a regression or not...  What version
>>>> works?  Which version does not?  Can you bisect it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jon Trulson
>>>>
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>>>>                            -- Sheldon
>>>>
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>>
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