GNU Make 4.0.1 ??? infinite loop on startup

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 12:42:28PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>On 2013-11-02 12:36, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>> On 2013-10-27 14:51, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> I downloaded the source code for the above and ran into the problem
>>> pretty quickly.  make was allocating an ever-increasing amount of memory
>>> due to a problem with the processing of eight bit characters with the
>>> high-bit set.  That caused the character to be interpreted as negative
>>> and that caused negative indexing off an array.
>>>
>>> The upcoming make-4.0-2 release should fix this problem.
>>
>> Was this a problem with the upstream source?  Or just a problem with the
>> cygwin build of it?
>Nevermind, just looked it up myself.

I actually pointed to the upstream bug in the announcement.

cgf

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