Hi,
I believe I have found a bug in make version 3.79.1. I am running on Sparc/Solaris 8.
This bug exists in the distribution of gnu make with Solaris 8 (version 3.78.1) and in
the compiled binary package available at www.sunfreeware.com (3.79.1). With a
particular set of makefiles, I get a Segmentation Violation. I have traced this to the
pattern_search function of implicit.c line 133. This line allocates memory for storing
rule match indicies. Since a rule may be included in tryrules multiple times (see
comment on line 277), it is possible that more that num_pattern_rules elements are
stored in matches. In my case, nrules was being set to 17 whilst num_pattern_rules was
set to 16. Setting matches[16] was overwriting tryrules[0]. I believe that lines
132-133 should be replaced with:
unsigned int *matches
= (unsigned int *) alloca (num_pattern_rules * max_pattern_targets
* sizeof (unsigned int));
This is similar to the allocation of tryrules (which has the same number of elements
as matches). With this fix I am able to make my project sucessfully.
I am working on a large project and am unable to extract all makefiles from it as an
example.
Regards,
Ian
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Ian Willis
Digital Broadcast Systems
Philips Semiconductors Systems Laboratory, Southampton
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 (0)23 80702701
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