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Re: preprocessor/9465: tradcpp0 segfaults on nul bytes


The following reply was made to PR preprocessor/9465; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
To: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: preprocessor/9465: tradcpp0 segfaults on nul bytes
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:08:13 +0000

 Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:-
 
 > >Originator:     Alexandre Duret-Lutz
 > >Release:        cpp (GCC) 3.2.2 20030124 (Debian prerelease)
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > Debian unstable
 > >Description:
 > `tradcpp0' segfaults on nul bytes.
 > 
 > When Debian switched to gcc-3.2 my applications' X resources
 > stopped being honored.  It turns out that `xrdb' processes
 > its input with `cpp -traditional' and I had a useless nul byte
 > at the end of my .Xresources.
 > 
 > I can reproduce this segfault with 3.1.  It works fine with 2.95.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Create a file containing a nul byte, and run it through
 > the traditional preproc.
 > 
 > % echo '\0' > bar
 > % od -c bar
 > 0000000  \0  \n
 > 0000002
 > ~ % cpp bar
 > # 1 "bar"
 > # 1 "<built-in>"
 > # 1 "<command line>"
 > # 1 "bar"
 > bar:1:1: warning: null character(s) ignored
 > ~ % cpp -traditional bar
 > cpp: Internal error: Segmentation fault (program tradcpp0)
 
 Jakub, this is the second report of this regression you introduced.
 
 Do you intend to fix it?
 
 Neil.


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