Re: bug in gp_initrc (for empty line)

[Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

* Bill Allombert [2012-02-16 16:04]:
> Xavier has found a bug in gp_initrc, when the .gprc file has an empty line:
> 
> We do
>     s = b->buf;
>     /* remove trailing \n */
>     slen = strlen(s);
>     if (s[slen-1] == '\n') s[slen-1] = 0;
> 
> When the line is empty, s is the empty string and does no have a
> trailing '\n', so slen is 0 and so s[slen-1] is invalid.

This had been detected as part of my short valgrind tutorial, during
last month's Atelier in Bordeaux...

For some reason, I had forgotten to commit the patch written after the
tutorial. Done now.

Thanks for the reminder ! :-)

    K.B.
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