Subject: Re: bug#79156: igc: igc_xpalloc_ambig SEGV

From: Gerd Möllmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 18:41:19 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Ouch. That seems to me to be a bug in how charset.c calls xpalloc, but
>> I'm not sure whether there are other callers that rely on this behavior,
>> so it's safest to work around it.
>
> xpalloc handles this case:
>
>   if (! pa)
>     *nitems = 0;

Yeah, I'd rather check the other igc variants of xpalloc, to make sure
they are compatible with the original, even if no one else uses that
particular feature.