Re: fix for CVS feature OpenBSD sparc64 bus error

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Hi Alex,

Alexander Taler <dissent@cvshome.org> writes:

> 
> Hi, I've been plagued by a bus error running the CVS feature
> branch on OpenBSD sparc64 for a while now.  It was particularly
> difficult because a lot of the time it would mess up my debugger,
> which gave dwarf errors, or dumped me in the wrong place on break
> points, etc.  Anyway, I finally tracked it down and fixed it.
> It's a type error, (which was even generating a warning) and I'm
> guessing it was causing stack corruption.
> 
> Alex
> 
> Index: src/vers_ts.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ccvs/src/vers_ts.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.58
> diff -u -r1.58 vers_ts.c
> --- src/vers_ts.c     4 Sep 2004 23:25:12 -0000       1.58
> +++ src/vers_ts.c     7 Oct 2004 22:31:36 -0000
> @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@
>  {
>      struct tm *tm_p;
>      char *cp;
> -    int length;
> +    size_t length;
>  
>      /* We want to use the same timestamp format as is stored in the
>         st_mtime.  For unix (and NT I think) this *must* be universal

Thanks for the report. I have committed your patch.

        -- Mark
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