Re: lynx-dev Possible Bug in Lynx 2.8.5-dev.15

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:28:47AM +0000, Patrick Ash wrote:
> When going to the following url, Lynx traps and exits. This occurs
> both when selecting the link from a main page, and starting lynx with
> the url as the target. 
> 
>  http://camden-sbc.rutgers.edu/FacultyStaff/Directory/default.htm
> 
> None of the other links on the main page (
> http://camden-sbc.rutgers.edu ) exhibit the same behavior. 
> 
> This is lynx-2.8.5-dev.15, built on OS/2 with ncurses-5.3. The
> behavior does not exist with dev.14 built with the same parameters. 

The immediate problem is in TRSTable.c, where it attempts to reuse a pointer
which is normally malloc'd.  If you change this "0" to a "1", it should work:

#if 0   /* Leads to no memory savings and quadratic time with EMX malloc */
        /* Do not need extra cells any more */
        me->rows[me->nrows - 2].cells = realloc(p,c * sizeof(STable_cellinfo));
        me->rows[me->nrows - 2].allocated = me->rows[me->nrows - 2].ncells;
#else
        if (!me->used_chunks

The realloc is used to shrink storage requirements - IZ's comment indicates it
may be slow.  If it's too slow, we should drop that chunk of code altogether.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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