Re: [MiNT] XaAES regression in launch()

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Vincent Rivière, 21.11.2012 00:18:06:

> On 20/11/2012 23:47, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > Well... What to do, now?
>
> By looking at the stack when the Bus Error occurs, a few bytes after the  
> sp value I see the strange string "=VGRA". By looking a TeraDesk early  
> initialization code, I see that it searchs for "ARGV=" in the  
> environment by pushing the bytes in the reverse order on the stack.
>
> That would suggest that TeraDesk crashed very early, when looking for  
> the command line arguments provided by the ARGV protocol...
>
> And once again this leads us to ARGV stuff, which seems to be tightly  
> related to that make_argv() function in XaAES...

The whole code around make_argv is not very safe:

Without any environment it will crash

With > 1024 variables it will crash

maybe more.


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Helmut Karlowski