Re: ed SEGV

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:20:25PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:18:49AM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> > "Joel Baker" <lucifer@lightbearer.com> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > > It's apparently being caused by stack corruption... lord knows how THAT
> > > is happening. Time to dig out the toolkit. Or rather, try to compile the
> > > toolkit... (GDB should be up, now, for the record).
> > 
> > I suspect Crap Code(TM). Or someone relying on a behaviour of glibc
> > that isn't standard.
> 
> Except that the source is taken from FreeBSD's /usr/src tree...
> 
> However, GCC 2.95.4 compiled; I'm now going to back up my current tarball,
> and do some test compiling with the new GCC to ensure that it works sanely,
> then try ed under 2.95.4 to try to weed out compiler issues.

Which sources are you using for ed? I used the ed package from Debian, and all
I had to do was put libed.a back into the ed target in Makefile.in. make check
passes just fine.