[aspell-devel] Valgrind error...

[Matthew Allen]

As no-one replied to my previous post about this, I'm raising it again.

I get this error when running Aspell under valgrind:

==14447== Source and destination overlap in strcpy(0x3CDE0B61, 0x3CDE0B62)
==14447==    at 0x3C01FC60: strcpy (mac_replace_strmem.c:102)
==14447==    by 0x3E9C890B: aspeller::phonet(char const*, char*, 
aspeller::PhonetParms const&) (stl_vector.h:289)
==14447==    by 0x3E9D53D9: 
aspeller::PhonetSoundslike::to_soundslike(acommon::ParmString) const 
(parm_string.hpp:56)
==14447==    by 0x3E9C3FF3: 
aspeller_default_writable_wl::WritableWS::add(acommon::ParmString) 
(clone_ptr.hpp:44)
==14447==    by 0x3E9C3999: 
aspeller_default_writable_wl::WritableWS::merge(acommon::FStream&, 
acommon::ParmString, acommon::Config*) (basic_string.h:388)
==14447==    by 0x3E9AE426: 
aspeller::WritableBaseCode::load(acommon::ParmString, acommon::Config*) 
(basic_string.h:388)
==14447==    by 0x3E9C6858: 
aspeller::WritableBase<aspeller::WritableWordSet>::load(acommon::ParmString, 
acommon::Config*, aspeller::SpellerImpl*, aspeller::LocalWordSetInfo const*) 
(writable_base.hpp:59)
==14447==    by 0x3E9B3602: aspeller::SpellerImpl::setup(acommon::Config*) 
(basic_string.h:388)
==14447==    by 0x3E98D776: acommon::new_speller(acommon::Config*) 
(stack_ptr.hpp:40)
==14447==    by 0x3E988FD0: new_aspell_speller (speller-c.cpp:26)
==14447==    by 0x3CB0F4E5: ASpell::new_aspell_speller(AspellConfig*) 
(Scribe_Spell.cpp:196)
==14447==    by 0x3CB0E479: Aspell_TextPipe::OnCommand(GView*, int, char*&, 
int&, bool) (Scribe_Spell.cpp:618)


It appears to be doing something untoward with strcpy.

I'm seeing random corruption of the block of text I'm spell checking and I was 
wondering where this error has anything to do with it.

Can someone comment on the validity of this error?


BTW I tried to build aspell from CVS on redhat 9 and got stuck here:
lemon% ./autogen
File "interfaces/cc/aspell.h" unchanged.
File "common/type_id.hpp" unchanged.
[ snip ]
Will not write over "lib/info-c.cpp".
File "lib/string_list-c.cpp" unchanged.
File "lib/string_map-c.cpp" unchanged.
File "lib/string_pair_enumeration-c.cpp" unchanged.
File "common/errors.cpp" unchanged.
mk-src.pod pod syntax OK.
cvs [checkout aborted]: no such tag gettext-0_13
/usr/bin/autopoint: line 259: fatal_error: command not found
find: tmpwrk28263/archive: No such file or directory
configure.ac: installing `./install-sh'
configure.ac: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
configure.ac: installing `./missing'
Makefile.am: installing `./compile'
Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at 
/usr/local/bin/automake line 6246, <GEN131> line 16.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at 
/usr/local/bin/automake line 6246, <GEN131> line 16.
lib5/Makefile.am:16: endif without if:
manual/Makefile.am:2: installing `manual/texinfo.tex'


Any ideas whats going on here?
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Matthew Allen
(http://www.memecode.com)