Re: address@hidden: Bug#94207: fmt dumps core with large -w]

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks a lot for the report.
I'll be sure this is fixed for the next test release.

Herbert Xu <address@hidden> wrote:
| This is caused by the overflowing of the COST type.  On linux-i386, int and
| long are of the same length, thus defining the COST as long gains nothing.
| A maximum width check should be added in main and possibly COST should be
| defined to be long long on architectures where sizeof(int) == sizeof(long).
| --
| Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )
| Email:  Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <address@hidden>
| Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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| From: Erno Kuusela <address@hidden>
| Subject: Bug#94207: fmt dumps core with large -w
| To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
| Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 04:50:00 +0300
| Reply-To: Erno Kuusela <address@hidden>, address@hidden
| Resent-From: Erno Kuusela <address@hidden>
|
| Package: textutils
| Version: 2.0-3
| Severity: minor
|
|
| (address@hidden) /tmp % fmt -w 100000 < /etc/fstab
| [snip output]
| zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  fmt -w 100000 < /etc/fstab
|
| -- System Information
| Debian Release: testing/unstable
| Architecture: i386
| Kernel: Linux fabulous 2.2.19pre3 #1 Fri Dec 22 04:06:11 EET 2000 i586
|
| Versions of packages textutils depends on:
| ii  libc6                         2.2.2-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
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