Re: lynx-dev 2.8.5dev.17 crash without lynx2.8.5dev.16-iz2.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Arclele wrote:

> Il 11/01/04 16.54.33, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
> ha scritto:
>
> >One that catches my eye is the use of SPAN, which is
> >(mis)used in lynx to setup color style.
> >
> Yes, this page is a "molosso" (3048 row) end there is a
> lot of bad code, like this:
>
> <span class='ptitextes'> 30 ans,
>   <span class='ptitextes'>strasbourg,
>     <span class='ptitextes'>fr.
>       <span class='ptitextes'>...
>       </span>
>
> 4 span open and 1 closed... for 3000 row.

I isolated a bug which seems to explain the problem.  The
Style_className[] buffer in src/HTML.c is a fixed-buffer, and for some
reason the logic keeps appending to it (without checking that it's full).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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