Re: PSPP-BUG: psppire crashes importing large text file

[Jason Stover]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 04:57:28PM -0400, Jason Stover wrote:
> ...and still crashes on the desktop, right after pressing the final 'Apply' 
> button. 
> Here is a backtrace from the segfault:
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x0808c3d7 in parse_field (ia=0xbfbdba08, row=<value optimized out>, 
> column=5, outputp=0x0, tooltipp=0xbfbdc528)
>     at src/ui/gui/text-data-import-dialog.c:1690
> 1690      field = ia->separators.columns[column].contents[row];

Taking a closer look at this:

(gdb) p column
$16 = 5
(gdb) p *(ia->separators.columns + 5)
$17 = {name = 0x0, width = 3080471850, contents = 0xb79d1710}

So it looks like the name of the sixth column is null. And then:

(gdb) p *((ia->separators.columns + 5)->contents)
$19 = {string = 0x375e0 <Address 0x375e0 out of bounds>, length = 3081502088}

I guess this is where it goes kablooie. I'm not sure why the address is out
of bounds.