severity 409517 important thanks (if this bug affects all 64bit arches, it really deserves severity important)
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mark A. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-12 18:37]: > >> >Although now I'm confused. How can this string be 36 characters >> when >the length of the date_string array is 25? >> >> That's why it was crashing. The printf was writing 36 characters >> which overran the 25 byte buffer. > > Yeah, but that doesn't explain why it didn't segfault when I changed > it to 26 bytes. Could it be that the behavior of abs when fed with a long int is just "undefined", so that it is "allowed" to segfault, but also not to? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
