Your message dated Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:44:37 +1100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #414846,
regarding mg: Segfaults on very long extended commands
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) Han Boetes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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found 414846 20061119-1
found 414846 20070214-1
severity 414846 minor
tags 414846 + confirmed upstream
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:00:26PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> Package: mg
> Version: 20061222-1
>
> (1) Start mg
> (2) M-x
> (3) enter 128 characters
> (4) C-g
> (5) Observe segmentation fault
There are several 128-cell character arrays used in extend.c. I
assume they are used instead of dynamically-allocated (malloc) memory
for the sake of simplicity; which is one of mg's core goals. I'm
forwarding this upstream, but I suspect the response will be WONTFIX.
Reducing severity because...
> [...]it does not affect normal use.
PS: Han, please preserve the CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
when you reply, so that the BTS will file your reply with the original
report.
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