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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:57:08 -0400
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Subject: Re: Bad address
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In-Reply-To: <20000607195254.1341.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:52:54PM -0700

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:52:54PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>I found the bug in texinfo-4.0. :) However, a call to perror is causing the
>associated output of "Bad address".  I didn't see anything obvious with perror,
>but I also haven't gotten down to the puts and putc calls either.  The data
>types being passed from texinfo to perror are declared as char * so I'm
>assuming this has to do with the REENT portion of the function.

I believe that this error was discussed in cygwin or cygwin-developers a
month or two ago.  Someone had a patch that was rejected by the texinfo
maintainer.

cgf