On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Jeff Brubaker wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:19:49PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> (void) sprintf(openLicenseString, "%s:%d",
>> LICENSE_METHOD_OPEN,
>> OPEN_LICENSE_VERSION);
>
>Actually, this got me thinking of something I saw the other day in X11R6.6 and
>wouldn't be surprised to see in XFree86. In xc/lib/xtrans, there was a call
>to malloc in which the only #include in the file was <ctype.h>. I tried
>compiling a 64 bit library and it seg faulted because malloc wasn't prototyped
>and the compiler (warned and) assumed an int type, which is only 32 bits long.
>
>Anyway, does XFree86 handle these kinds of bugs and are there public patches
>for them? After fixing that (added #include <malloc.h>), I got a bus error in
>another section of code. I probably should report these to the X group...
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