[Bug-xnee] [bug #23965] Uninitialized variable in cnee

[Peter Fales]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23965>

                 Summary: Uninitialized variable in cnee
                 Project: Xnee
            Submitted by: psfales
            Submitted on: Wednesday 07/30/2008 at 11:38
                Category: cnee
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Minor fault
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

If one types "cnee" with no arguments, the value of an un-initialzied pointer
is printed.  On Linux, the results in garbabe printed on the screen:

$ cnee
Error number:   6
  Error:        Wrong paramters
  Description:  You have given invalid input to Xnee 
  Argument:     X)Ê¿

I used this patch:

diff -ur xnee-3.02/cnee/src/parse.c xnee-3.02.new/cnee/src/parse.c
--- xnee-3.02/cnee/src/parse.c  2007-06-28 05:14:17.000000000 -0500
+++ xnee-3.02.new/cnee/src/parse.c      2008-07-29 22:40:01.000000000 -0500
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@
   const char *descr;
   const char *err;
   const char *sol;
-  char *saved_arg;
+  char *saved_arg = "(NONE)";
   int entry ;
   int args_used;
 





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