GNU bug report logs - #13827
faulty range check in bytevector accessor

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Ian Price <ianprice90 <at> googlemail.com>

Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ian Price <ianprice90 <at> googlemail.com>
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: faulty range check in bytevector accessor
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:02:06 +0000

Branch: master
Commit: 9b977c836bf147d386944c401113aba32776fa68
System: 32 bit x86 Fedora 16

(use-modules (rnrs bytevectors))
(define not-32-bit (expt 2 32))
(define bv (make-bytevector 4))
(bytevector-u32-set! bv 0 not-32-bit (endianness big))
(pk bv)

Running this gives me a core dump. It happens for a wide range of values
that don't fit in 32 bits.

After some talk on #guile, Mark and I believe it comes down to the range
check in INTEGER_ACCESSOR_PROLOGUE in bytevectors.c

-- 
Ian Price -- shift-reset.com

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the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"
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