Infinite loop or abort on malformed C

Zack Weinberg zack@rabi.columbia.edu
Mon Apr 26 06:56:00 GMT 1999


On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 01:43:02 -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
>  In message < 199904171340.JAA11364@blastula.phys.columbia.edu >you write:
>  > On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 09:33:49 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>  > >
>  > >This fragment [...] sends the current development tree into a
>  > >near-infinite loop, eventually running out of memory and dying with
>  > >SIGBUS.  1.1.x is a bit more polite, it just ICEs.
>  > 
>  > Here is a patch.

May I check in the portion of this patch that adds an abort to
emit_move_insn_1?  Then I can add a testcase safely.  Right now, a
testcase will screw people with limited memory/disk to run tests in.

zw


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