Re: xedit segfault on open
On 10/15/25 06:49, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
It crashes here:
https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/app/x11-apps/-/blob/debian-unstable/xedit/lisp/bytecode.c?ref_type=heads#L1267
That code looks like at first sight it can caused unaligned access.
Unfortunately the one upstream developer who knew the lisp code hasn't
been involved in xedit in many years.
Please report this upstream here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xedit
The maintainer works at Oracle on Solaris SPARC, so he would certainly
be interested to hear about this crash.
Except that we don't ship xedit in Solaris - emacs, vim, nano, & gedit
seem to be enough to satisfy our users. (We don't build emacs with the
optional tree-sitter support in Solaris, so don't hit problems with its
node.js dependency as you do.)
I'll see if we can figure this out as spare time allows, but it's not a
priority. (As you can see from the new bug being only the third bug
reported against xedit in years, it's not widely used today.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
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