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<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE>. Thanks. I set the Reply-To: header in my messages -- please make sure your mailer respects it. Redirecting this reply back to the list. And <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU> reformatted. On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, duvelbier-tsmets wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Igor Peshansky <> > To: Thomas SMETS <smetsthomas@XXXXX.XXX> > Cc: cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX; thomas.baker@XX.XXX.XX <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 7:11:54 PM > Subject: Re: Re : Re: Memory error with PDKSH 5.2.14-3? > > > Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. > > > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Thomas SMETS wrote: > > > > > From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> > > > To: Thomas Baker <thomas dot baker at bi dot fhg dot de> > > > Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com > > > Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:26:26 -0400 (EDT) > > > Subject: Re: Memory error with PDKSH 5.2.14-3? > > > > > > > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Thomas Baker wrote: > > > > > > > > > Just wanted to report that I was seeing error messages such as the > > > > > following in Korn shell scripts: > > > > > > > > > > /home/tbaker/u/bin/urlists[50]: internal error: alloc: freeing > > > > > memory outside of block (corrupted?) > > > > > > > > > > By running the scripts in debug mode (set -x), I found that > > > > > the problem seemed to occur when declared functions (i.e., > > > > > declared within the script) were invoked multiple times. > > > > > The functions would work at first, then stop working -- > > > > > as if the functions somehow ate up the available memory. > > > > > > > > > > Since rolling back from 5.2.14-3 to 5.2.14-2, the problem > > > > > seems to have gone away. > > > > > > > > > > I am not a programmer and do not have time to test this > > > > > systematically but thought others on this list might want > > > > > to hear about this. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the report. However: > > > > > > > > I have no hope of reproducing this, do I? > > > > > > > > AFAICS, the few changes from 5.2.14-2 to 5.2.14-3 that could have possibly > > > > caused this are the fixes in the autoconf files. I doubt the "struct > > > > option" magic would matter, but it's possible, I guess, though by > > > > eyeballing the code the two versions do look functionally equivalent. > > > > > > > > It would help to have a script that demonstrates the problem. I can't do > > > > anything otherwise, sorry... > > > > > > > > Igor Pechtchanski, the Cygwin pdksh volunteer maintainer > > > > > > One year later .... (with the same/latest version) > > > Using : > > > set -x > > > set -v > > > in a script generates a similar error around line 50whatever code I put > > > in the script > > > > Did you even read my reply to the OP? I cannot reproduce this without a > > complete testcase. Since I cannot reproduce this, there is no way I can > > fix this. Unless someone provides a complete testcase that exhibits this > > behavior, this problem will remain unfixed. > > > > Igor Peshansky, the Cygwin PDKSH volunteer maintainer > > No hard feeling... > I didn't even know you where the maintainer Heh? I only signed the original message you replied to with that phrase... > I will look to do so from home ... > Attached is the version of the file generating the problem ... @ work > I have some troubles with my internet provider lately but I should be > able to answer yr question 'round thrusday I hope on skype, if you > want... With the time lag, I will be able to do so from home :) Thanks for the testcase. I'll look into it. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"
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