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Re: GNU Make 4.0.1 ??? infinite loop on startup
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 14:44:12 -0400
- Subject: Re: GNU Make 4.0.1 ??? infinite loop on startup
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On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 12:42:28PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>On 2013-11-02 12:36, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>> On 2013-10-27 14:51, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> I downloaded the source code for the above and ran into the problem
>>> pretty quickly. make was allocating an ever-increasing amount of memory
>>> due to a problem with the processing of eight bit characters with the
>>> high-bit set. That caused the character to be interpreted as negative
>>> and that caused negative indexing off an array.
>>>
>>> The upcoming make-4.0-2 release should fix this problem.
>>
>> Was this a problem with the upstream source? Or just a problem with the
>> cygwin build of it?
>Nevermind, just looked it up myself.
I actually pointed to the upstream bug in the announcement.
cgf
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