Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/01/10:12:06
Student at Wageningen Agricultural University <look AT messa DOT ge> wrote:
> I think I found a little bug in RHIDE. Because Robert Höhne (the author)
> wishes that bug reports are reported on this list first, here it is:
> File->Open / F3 opens the 'Open a file' window. The bug shows itself
> (under Windows 95 and 98) when I try to select a file in that window
> which name is larger than 127 (yep, I found that by pure chance :)
> characters. When I try to do that, RHIDE immediately exits without any
> message.
> 127 characters is the boundary. It doesn't matter if the filename ends
> with '.c' or not. It also doesn't matter if the filename contains
> several periods, one period or none at all.
> I have reinstalled RHIDE in a directory of it's own (just extracted the
> official rhide14b.zip) and I still got this behaviour. Ofcourse, there
> is no problem when I use the -n option.
Is only the name of the file? or the path too?
As the problem looks like some (silly) buffer overflow in TVision I'll check
it with my editor too.
Greetings, SET
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