X-Spam-Check-By:	sourceware.org
Date:	Tue, 23 May 2006 00:22:08 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: dereferenced NULL in setup-2.529 (possible patch)
Message-ID:	<20060523042207.GB31624@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<e4tjba$d7d$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org>
Mime-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<e4tjba$d7d$1@sea.gmane.org>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.5.11
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Unsubscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:00:42PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>mwoehlke wrote:
>> Also, I'd test on my XP system but it is consistently dereferencing a
>> NULL :-(. (On W2k3 R2 it did that *once* and has since run just fine.)
>
>I built setup (from the 2.529 tarball) and ran it in gdb, and got this 
>stack trace:

This sounds vaguely familiar.  Max Bowsher seems to be doing a lot of work
in CVS to fix these types of problems.  It probably would be best to try
the CVS version to see if the problem persists.

See:  http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/20/1651253

cgf

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -