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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
Subject: Re: bin/1153: fmt segfaults 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/1153; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/1153: fmt segfaults 
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 16:24:24 -0700

 >David Greenman writes:
 >
 >>    I don't get it. How can "cp" be NULL? It's assigned to "linebuf" which is
 >> allocated off the stack:
 >
 >>         char linebuf[BUFSIZ], canonb[BUFSIZ];
 >
 >>    ...linebuf can never be NULL.
 >
 >	Could you be looking at the source for the 2.1 version of
 >fmt?  The one in -current has been rewritten to use a
 >reallocating buffer for linebuf.
 
    Oh! Sorry about that, yes, I was assuming 2.1-stable. Nevermind. :-)
 
 -DG
 
 David Greenman
 Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project