Re: [Chicken-users] segfault bug in string->number

[felix winkelmann]

On 2/1/07, Robin Lee Powell <address@hidden> wrote:
> The following output occurs:
>
> address@hidden> csc -O2 -d0 /tmp/stn.scm ; /tmp/stn
> 4107
> #f
> 5065
> zsh: segmentation fault  /tmp/stn
>
> I'm not going to try to patch it, because I *loathe* C.  In fact,
> I'm using Scheme largely *because* I loathe C (I'm replacing bits of
> C in the project I'm working on with it).

And right you are about loathing it, because otherwise you might even
make mistakes like this:

% darcs diff runtime.c
7278c7278
<   C_memcpy(sptr = buffer, C_c_string(str), n);
---
>   C_memcpy(sptr = buffer, C_c_string(str), n > (STRING_BUFFER_SIZE - 1) ? 
> STRING_BUFFER_SIZE : n);


cheers,
felix