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Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.2pre7 + wrong link segfaults


From: dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.2pre7 + wrong link segfaults
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 21:38:54 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> > > Hi again. 2.8.2pre9 is working fine with this bad link. I just get the  
> > > Alert. This lynx was compiled with --enable-debug in case I have 
> > > problems.  
> >  
> > good (I suspected it would, but studying the code I could not see where 
> > the HTSprintf function would dump core - it certainly did not on my 
> > machine). 
>  
> One very slight danger I can see in making assumptions is that the core 
> dump *could* be dependent on having debug disabled. 

The core dump came from using HTSprintf with a formatting parameter that
wasn't - it could, and did contain a % character that had nothing to do
with its design (the %7C for "|").  The bug wasn't in HTSprintf, but the
function that called it.
  
> __Henry 


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