Re: commit -- Fixed broken UT_decodeXMLstring


Subject: Re: commit -- Fixed broken UT_decodeXMLstring
From: Goran Thyni (goran@kirra.net)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 09:17:41 CDT


On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:17:43AM -0400, Thomas Briggs wrote:
>
> Backed out part of Goran Thyni's patch which caused Win32 to GPF startup
> (due to attempting to strdup a freed pointer). Why this didn't cause
> problems on Linux I have no idea (I tested it without this fix and it didn't
> seg fault... ;shrug)

The pointer that is strdup:ed was pointing into a released
parsetree. Under happy circumtances it work OK, but it is
a time bomb.
Good catch.

regards,
Göran.



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