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Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Patch for ar.c
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Date: 14 Aug 89 20:30:53 GMT
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Following is a patch to ar.c which was necessary to avoid a subsequent
null pointer reference (on an HP9000s300 under hpux 6.[25] - probably others).

*** ar.c.orig	Sun Mar  5 16:53:47 1989
--- ar.c	Thu Aug 10 11:15:44 1989
***************
*** 800,805 ****
--- 800,806 ----
        else
  	{
  	  struct mapelt *this = (struct mapelt *) xmalloc (sizeof (struct mapelt));
+ 	  bzero (this, sizeof (struct mapelt));
  
  	  this->info.name = "__.SYMDEF";
  	  this->info.offset = 0;


Mark Costlow
..texsun!xochitl!cheeks