Subj : Segfault in SyncTERM
To   : Deuce
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Mar 23 2005 03:43 pm

  Re: Segfault in SyncTERM
  By: Deuce to Deuce on Wed Mar 23 2005 09:29 am

 >  > Well, on this system here, it appears that SyncTERM segfaults when you
 >  > drag-select past the end of the screen (Win32)
 >  >
 >  > Running it under the turbo debugger shows that the segfault is happening 
 >  > malloc() at conio/win32cio.c:513
 >  >
 >  > bs.X == 80 and bs.Y == 24 (Not sure of sizeof(CHAR_INFO))
 >  >
 >  > Any ideas why that would cause a segfault?
 > 
 > Well, I fixed it I suppose... still not sure why the malloc() was causing a
 > segfault.

If the malloc chain gets corrupted (by an errant memory write), then a call to
malloc() can can an exception/segfault.

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