Bug#520920: texlive-base-bin: bibtex crashes on realloc (invalid next size)

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 26.03.09 Vincent Lefevre (vincent@vinc17.org) wrote:

Hi,

> BTW, can bibtex8 safely be used in place of bibtex (no
> compatibility problems)?
> 
>From the manual page:

       8-bit BibTeX is an enhanced, portable C version of BibTeX
       0.99. It has been enhanced in these areas:

       - conversion to "big" (32-bit) capacity
       - capacity selectable at run time
       - flexible support for non-English languages using 8-bit
         character sets
       - well matched to LateX2e and its "inputenc" package

       Oren  Patashnik,  the creator of BibTeX, is working on a new
       BibTeX 1.0 that will be a modern implementation supporting
       large capacities and non-English languages (see TUGboat, pages
       269--274, volume 15, number 3, September 1994).  He is content
       for this version to be released, but hopes that people will
       eventually migrate to BibTeX 1.0 when it is released.  Its
       release date is uncertain at the moment.

So I guess bibtex8 is compatible, but I can't really say. I'll ask
some more experienced people.

H.
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