Re: Stack corruption in 21.5b26

Fabrice> Not at all. Stephen's patch was abour enlarging the Fabrice> buffer. But that doesn't cure the fact that : Wow! I wonder why my patch worked at all; I guess my compiler (GCC) pads to a multiple of wordsize or something like that, while yours doesn't. Thanks for catching this! Fabrice> Ibyte buf[DOC_MAX_FILENAME_LENGTH+1]; Fabrice> Ibyte *buffer = buf; Fabrice> int buffer_size = sizeof (buf), space_left; Since the '\0' is actually an artificial sentinel, I suggest (1) change the init code to Ibyte buf[DOC_MAX_FILENAME_LENGTH+1]; Ibyte *buffer = buf; int buffer_size = sizeof (buf) - 1, /* omit sentinel position */ space_left; (2) change all other uses of DOC_MAX_FILENAME_LENGTH to buffer_size. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Just Say No to porting sucky GNU code!