Infinite loop or abort on malformed C

Jeffrey A Law law@upchuck.cygnus.com
Mon Apr 26 22:12:00 GMT 1999


  In message < 199904261356.JAA15441@blastula.phys.columbia.edu >you write:
  > 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.
You can check in both fixes.

Thanks,
jeff


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