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Re: possible bug in libXt or libXaw
- From: Mark Geisert <mark at maxrnd dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 06:30:01 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: possible bug in libXt or libXaw
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Marco Atzeri writes:
> this is the pointer causing the segfault
>
> (gdb) p form->form.horiz_base
> $2 = (Widget) 0x6275705f6779632f
>
> while similar pointers have a much smaller address,
>
> (gdb) p w
> $5 = (Widget) 0x60014bd50
>
> so it that an assignment not clearing the upper
> portion of the pointer.
$2 is not a pointer that needed partial clearing, it's a character string
"/cyg_pub". Possibly a buffer overrun somewhere? Hope the string fragment
points the way to somebody.
..mark
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