Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:07:28 -0800
From: Manfred Antar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mail dumps core on current with latest /usr/src/usr.bin/mail updates:
Yeah; I was able to reproduce that result.
I then re-made mail, this time with the -g flag, and tried again;
problem is detected in fixhead() (send.c:419).
Running it under gdb, I see some weird stuff happening (or maybe I'm
just confused). Here's the first part of fixhead():
/*
* Fix the header by glopping all of the expanded names from
* the distribution list into the appropriate fields.
*/
void
fixhead(hp, tolist)
struct header *hp;
struct name *tolist;
{
struct name *np;
hp-h_to = NULL;
hp-h_cc = NULL;
hp-h_bcc = NULL;
for (np = tolist; np != NULL; np = np-n_flink)
/* Don't copy deleted addresses to the header */
if (np-n_type GDEL)
continue;
if ((np-n_type GMASK) == GTO)
The failure is on the first conditional in the for loop. Watch this:
freebeast[22] gdb `which mail`
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This GDB was configured as i386-unknown-freebsd...
(gdb) b fixhead
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80545af: file /usr/src/usr.bin/mail/send.c, line 419.
(gdb) set args -v david
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/mail -v david
Subject: Test 3
???
.
Cc:
Breakpoint 1, fixhead (hp=0xbfbff808, tolist=0x805f000)
at /usr/src/usr.bin/mail/send.c:419
419 {
(gdb) p hp
$1 = (struct header *) 0x805f000
(gdb) p tolist
$2 = (struct name *) 0x1
(gdb) n
422 hp-h_to = NULL;
(gdb) p hp
$3 = (struct header *) 0xbfbff808
(gdb) p tolist
$4 = (struct name *) 0x805f000
(gdb)
OK, I realize that constants aren't; variables won't, but this is getting
a bit much. Is, perhaps, something screwy happening with the stack pointer
(or some such thing; it's been ~8 years since I looked at the insides of
gcc)?
Cheers,
david
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