Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 15:21:13 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Bash 2.05 beta 09/13-Aug-2001 SIGABRT
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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 19:33:45 +1000
> 
> > Mark,
> > This morning I added a getch() and printf to the programming_error
> function
> > in of error.c so that I could try to capture the screen above the SIGABRT
> > error from yesterday. This did not work instead I got a SIGSEGV error as
> > outlined below.
> >
> > I was trying to run the "djgpp\config" command to re-configure grep 2.4
> > under WIn 2K.
> > The same exe also hangs on Win 98 when running the same conmmand as on Win
> > 2K.
> >
> > loading site script ./djgpp/config.site
> > Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
> > General Protection Fault at eip=000825cf
> > eax=336d6534 ebx=0013fcbc ecx=0013fd4c edx=336d6534 esi=336d6534
> > edi=336d6574
> > ebp=00130974 esp=0013094c program=D:\DJ204\BIN\SH.EXE
> > cs: sel=01a7  base=01ce0000  limit=0016ffff
> > ds: sel=01af  base=01ce0000  limit=0016ffff
> > es: sel=01af  base=01ce0000  limit=0016ffff
> > fs: sel=017f  base=000070c0  limit=0000ffff
> > gs: sel=01bf  base=00000000  limit=0010ffff
> > ss: sel=01af  base=01ce0000  limit=0016ffff
> > App stack: [001314d8..000b14d8]  Exceptn stack: [000b069c..000ae75c]
> >
> > Call frame traceback EIPs:
> >
> > Call frame traceback EIPs:
> >   0x000825cf _free+611
> >   0x000826c4 _realloc+88

Looks like a memory corruption problem: the crash is inside realloc,
and EDX, ESI, and EDI look like ASCII text ("4ei3", little-endian).