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Subject: Re: dereferenced NULL in setup-2.529 (possible patch)
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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

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