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Re: rebase segmentation fault


On Jul 16 19:16, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Cygwin installation under Windows 7 (32 bits).
> 
> After 'rebase-trigger full' and 'Setup', autorebase seems to finish
> okay, but the /etc/rebase.db.i386 remains absent after that.  Not a
> real problem after all (since rebase was functioning well until some
> recent date and all is already rebased), but some third party builds
> (like e.g. perl) insist on the presence of the /etc/rebase.db.i386
> database.
> 
> Indeed, rebase segfaults in rebase.c and nothing is rebased. This
> occurs (see rebase-4.4.2) immediately after "Skip trailing entries as
> long as there is no hole." because at some point, all
> img_info_list[end].base are equal to 0, the while() is getting always
> true, and the variable 'end' is decremented by 1 at every iteration,
> until it reaches -1 where the segfault occurs.

Patches welcome!


Corinna

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