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[Kevin Atkinson]

The aspell mailing list address is address@hidden  Please
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Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> 
> > Am I doing something wrong? Is anyone using aspell under Solaris? I try to
> > spell-check a file using the "-a" option (as I'm calling this from a
> > program), and it segfaults. I run gdb on it, and sure enough metaphone.cc
> > creates a variable called "char wname[60]" and tries to put each word into
> > it. If the word is larger than 60 characters, BOOM! I can't even see how
> > this is Solaris-specific.
> >
> > Granted, words longer than 60 characters are... rare, but not everything in
> > a text file is going to be a valid word. I routinely see aspell crashing
> > because of this.
> 
> You are absolutly right.  I will look into it this weekend.  It has never
> come up in my use of aspell.
> 

Here is a fix for that problem.  I will have a new release out in a
couple of days. Apply the patch in the util/ directory.

--- metaphone.cc~       Mon Dec 28 04:26:53 1998
+++ metaphone.cc        Fri Nov 12 01:49:50 1999
@@ -418,8 +418,7 @@
   int vowelAfter, vowelBefore, frontvAfter;
   string metaph;
   
-  char wname[60];
-  char *ename=wname;
+  char *ename = new char[strlen(name)];
   
   jj = 0;
   for (ii=0; name[ii]; ++ii) {
@@ -431,7 +430,7 @@
   metaph.reserve(jj);
   ename[jj] = '\0';
   
-  if (jj == 0) return metaph;
+  if (jj != 0) {
 
                         /* if ae, gn, kn, pn, wr then drop the first
letter */
   if ( (chrptr=strchr(excpPAIR,ename[0]) ) != 0 ) {
@@ -613,7 +612,9 @@
     }
 
   }
+  }
 
+  delete[] ename;
   if (metaph.size() == 0) metaph = "-";
   return metaph;
 }


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Kevin Atkinson
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