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Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support


On Mar 26 11:18, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >keen to debug it.  From what I can tell, the shmctl call works
> >fine.  After that call, the XFreeFont() function accesses a piece
> >of data, 512 bytes before the address of the buffer used as third
> >argument to shmctl().  This address (buffer - 512) results in the
> >SEGV.
> [...]
> I'll have to see if I can reproduce this and maybe make a debug compile 
> (takes about 2 hours, ugh).

Thanks you.  Just a correction:  I misinterpreted the address by 1 hex
digit.  The address is 32 bytes before the buffer, not 512 bytes, sorry.


Corinna

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