sed crashes on 64 bit dual core vista

[Juha Meskanen]

Hi,

Problems with sed.exe, when running it on a 64 bit dual core 
system with Vista. 

I'm not sure whether the problem is 64 bit, dual,  or Vista 
related.  

But I have used sed quite a lot with other Windows based 
single & dual processor systems (not to mention linux 
and Mac OS X systems) and  this 64 bit dual Vista workstation 
seems to be the only one in which the problem shows up. 


To duplicate the bug I need to run the following script:

----
echo static unsigned char * worktool_bits[2] = {"r3wid2/worktool", (unsigned 
char *)hInst};  >tmp
sed "s/)hInst/)\&hInst/" tmp 
----

a few dozens of times, but it may crash with any input. 

I usually get the following error:

    sed: can't read tmp: No such file or directory

'tmp' file exists and is readable. 

Sometimes I get the following error:

    0 [main] us 0 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to us.stackdump

and here is the stack dump file:

MSYS-1.0.10 Build:2004-03-15 07:17
Exception: STATUS_NONCONTINUABLE_EXCEPTION at eip=777975C5
eax=0027EEE8 ebx=0027FDA8 ecx=00000000 edx=C0000008 esi=0027EF5C edi=00000000
ebp=0027EF44 esp=0027EEDC program=us
cs=0023 ds=002B es=002B fs=0053 gs=002B ss=002B
Stack trace:
Frame     Function  Args
0027EF44  777975C5  (0027E000, 0027EFAC, 0027EF5C, 0027EFAC)
0027F278  7774EE57  (00020114, 00030D30, 00030D30, 00030B30)
0027F290  7776D093  (00020114, 00000001, 00000004, 71045900)
0027F510  71042185  (00020000, 00030F38, 7103DD67, 00000022)
0027FBC0  710417EB  (00020000, 000F003F, 00000058, 0027FBE4)
0027FC00  71045854  (00020000, 00000000, 0027FD70, 7105AC23)
0027FC20  710457D2  (00020000, 00000000, 0027FD70, 7105ABAA)
0027FD70  7105AD54  (0027FE80, 00000000, 00000000, 77750CF2)
0027FE50  71004B65  (00000000, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
0027FF20  710051B1  (00401560, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
0027FF40  7100581C  (00000000, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
0027FF70  0040BE07  (00401560, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
0027FFA0  0040103D  (7EFDE000, 0027FFEC, 777AD109, 7EFDE000)
0027FFAC  76E719F1  (7EFDE000, 00276EFE, 00000000, 00000000)
0027FFEC  777AD109  (00401000, 7EFDE000, 00000000, 78746341)
End of stack trace



I hope you find my bug report useful. 

Regards,
Juha