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Re: Bad address
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Bad address
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:06:36 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> 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.
I wasn't trying to report the texinfo bug, I was trying to report the perror
bug which is a function existing in the newlib/libc/stdio/perror.c file. I'll
see if I can work up a simple test program that exhibits the problem.
Regards,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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