GNU bug report logs - #1491
bug in ebrowse 22.1

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lars Rasmusson <lars.rasmusson <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:40:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Lars Rasmusson <lars.rasmusson <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 1491 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug in ebrowse 22.1 
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:07:16 -0500

> Isn't this a bug?
> On line ebrowse.c:2037
>           for (--p; p >= inbuffer && *p != '\n'; --p)
>               ;
> I think it  should be
>           for (--p; p > inbuffer && *p != '\n'; --p)
>               ;
> otherwise p may point to one character before inbuffer.

It looks wrong, indeed.  Does changing >= to > fix the crash for you?
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