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has caused the report #562991,
regarding strcasestr() implicitly converted to pointer
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) John Lazzaro <[email protected]>
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562991: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562991
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Hello.
I received this report from the Debian bug system.
I'll apply the proposed patch to the debian package.
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From: dann frazier <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:54:44 -0700
Subject: Bug#562991: strcasestr() implicitly converted to pointer
Source: sfront
Version: 0.94-2
Severity: serious
Usertags: implicit-pointer-conversion
Tags: patch
Our automated buildd log filter[1] detected a problem that is likely to
cause your package to segfault on architectures where the size of a
pointer is greater than the size of an integer, such as ia64 and amd64.
Function `strcasestr' implicitly converted to pointer at sfmain.c:1150
This is often due to a missing function prototype definition.
For more information, see [2].
Though it is guaranteed that this codepath will cause a segfault on certain
architectures, it is not guaranteed that this codepath would ever be executed
(e.g., if the returned pointer is never dereferenced). However, this bug
does prevent the ia64 buildd from successfully building this package, resulting
in a practical FTBFS issue and warranting the serious severity.
[1] http://people.debian.org/~dannf/check-implicit-pointer-functions
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/ImplicitPointerConversions
--- sfront-0.94.orig/src/tree.h 2009-12-29 12:44:35.000000000 -0700
+++ sfront-0.94/src/tree.h 2009-12-29 12:52:56.518696372 -0700
@@ -41,10 +41,11 @@
#define _SFRONT_TREE_H 1
#define IDSTRING "0.94 12/14/09"
+#define _GNU_SOURCE /* strcasestr */
+#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
-#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <float.h>
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