[8864] in Athena Bugs
Re: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Wed Jan 22 11:01:54 1992
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, ckclark@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 21 Jan 92 19:05:16 -0500.
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 11:01:32 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
The argument to alloca() in filelock.c:unlock_file() was about 0x20000000.
This resulted in a negative stack pointer.
The filename was a lisp string object with size 0x1fffbf6c and data "/tmp/xt"
(it was this large size which was used to compute the argument to alloca).
The pointer 0x1fffbf6c pointed to a valid lisp string with size 7 and data
"/tmp/xt".
