Re: daily: vim problem again Off Topic Praise

[Samuel Thibault]

Joshua Branson, le sam. 27 févr. 2021 09:34:05 -0500, a ecrit:
> Paul Dufresne <dufresnep@zoho.com> writes:
> > ---- Le ven., 26 févr. 2021 23:29:01 -0500 Jessica Clarke 
> > <jrtc27@debian.org> écrit ----
> >>
> >  > I'd advise you to not delve too deeply into malloc. This is likely a
> >  > buffer overflow that then corrupts the (inline) state maintained by
> >  > malloc, so you really need to be looking at vim.
> >  >
> >  > Jess
> >
> > I have an idea.
> > I could replace the assert by a printf of the address of the pointer.
> >
> > Then if I could generate a map of vim, I could figure out approximately 
> > that the buffer overflowing is just before that address?
> >
> > Frankly, not knowing exactly what I am doing... ;-)
> 
> You may not know exactly what you're doing, but you are currently the
> world's leading expert in fixing this particular bug.  :) No offense
> meant to other Hurd developers.  They are just busy addressing other
> issues.

That's the point indeed: better somebody not knowing what he's doing
than nobody who would know what he's doing.

Samuel