Re: [aspell-devel] Patch to fix segfaults on 64-bit arches

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Brian Nelson wrote:

> Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The problem has nothing to do with it being 64-bit.  
> 
> Yeah, but it seems to only manifest itself on 64-bit arches.
> 
> > I believe the problem is that it thinks '\0' is a space character.
> >
> > The ctype functions are nothing but trouble for parsing as they are 
> > locale dependent and perhaps arch depending as this case showed.  The 
> > fix is very simple include "asc_ctype.hpp" and then use asc_isspace.  I 
> > thought I replaced them all but apparently I missed this one.
> 
> I tried this and now it segfaults here:

OK.  That's not the problem.  Please submit the patch at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aspell/.  I want to examine the problem a 
bit more before I accept it.

Thanks in advance.

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