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mutt/1536: Segment fault with long lines when LANG=*.UTF-8



The following reply was made to PR mutt/1536; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brendan Cully <brendan@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mutt Developers <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: mutt/1536: Segment fault with long lines when LANG=*.UTF-8
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:41:58 -0700

 On Wednesday, 03 August 2005 at 08:25, Brendan Cully wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR mutt/1536; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Brendan Cully <brendan@xxxxxxxxxx>
 > To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: mutt/1536: Segment fault with long lines when LANG=*.UTF-8
 > Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:20:12 -0700
 > 
 >  On Tuesday, 02 August 2005 at 07:05, Anders Helmersson wrote:
 >  > The following reply was made to PR mutt/1536; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >  > 
 >  > From: Anders Helmersson <anders.helmersson.utsikt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
 >  > To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 >  > Cc: 
 >  > Subject: Re: mutt/1536: Segment fault with long lines when LANG=*.UTF-8
 >  > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 06:24:52 +0200
 >  > 
 >  >  On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 04:31:44 +0200, Brendan Cully wrote:
 >  >  > This seems to have been a libc bug. Can you reproduce with a current 
 > version?
 >  >  
 >  >  Yes, the segfault still appears with 1.5.9i (2005-03-13).
 >  >  
 >  >  The debian version (1.5.9-2) with the patch
 >  >  patch.helmersson.incomplete-mbyte.2 does not segfault.
 >  
 >  The patch seems reasonable to me, but I'm not too conversant in this
 >  multibyte stuff. Can anyone with more authority comment on why it
 >  shouldn't be committed?
 
 I've had no luck reproducing the error according to your instructions
 on debian with CVS mutt, LANG=en_US.UTF-8, color body magenta default
 [a-z] and the mail you uploaded. I'm on sid and my libc is
 2.3.2.ds1-22.
 
 I also can't reproduce this on ubuntu hoary or OS X. Any clues?