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25.0.94; emacs 25.0.94 crashes

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Message #19 received at 23726 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer <at> redhat.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Jan Synáček
 <jsynacek <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 23726 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug#23726: emacs 25.0.94 crashes
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 20:52:42 +0200

On 06/08/2016 08:34 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

> The problem is that the realloc implementation for dumped chunks is
> incorrect; that bit is already in glibc master and rawhide.  I think I
> can see what is wrong: The size computation for the old chunk size in
> realloc is wrong, and the trailing sizeof (size_t) bytes are not copied.
>  Fortunately, it's not a conceptual problem with the heap rewriter.

glibc patch posted:

  https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-06/msg00261.html

The same dumped binary crashes before this patch is applied, and works 
afterwards.

Jan, thanks for reporting this.

Florian

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