[XML-SIG] PyXML 0.8.1 pyexpat segfault

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:49:22 -0400


Jeremy Kloth writes:
 > There are two Expat bugs which are very reproduceable, I should know, I 
 > reported them.  The xmlns in external subset (fixed in xmlparse.c, v1.91) and 
 > the storeRawNames fix (fixed in v1.93).  Both of these end up corrupting 
 > malloc's memory structures which end up causing segfaults in strange places 
 > (totally unrelated areas of code).  With the fixes, I can successfully 
 > complete 4Suite's regression tests.

Ok, so it seems what I need to do next week is get another Expat
released.  I'll see what I can do.

I'll be away from computers for most of the weekend, so I know I won't
get to much until Monday.


  -Fred

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