Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!isil.ai.mit.edu!davida From: davida@isil.ai.mit.edu (David Axmark) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: Wrong memory freed in GNUmake 3.55 Message-ID: <8909241440.AA01226@isil.se> Date: 24 Sep 89 15:40:36 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 37 This make file core dumps on my system. (DG AViiON DGUX 4.10) skr:; echo $(word 5, foo bar baz dcdc ed wed wed wed wed wed ) The reason seams to be a free of the wrong pointer in function.c. Here is my fix. diff function.c function.c.org 879,880c879 < p3 = expand_argument (p + 1, end); < p = p3; --- > p = expand_argument (p + 1, end); 901c900 < free (p3); --- > free (p); Another smaller bug. If patsubst is used without a % in the pattern as in the following makefile. all:; echo $(patsubst /,, $(dir doo/ddd)) On my system make loops on this makefile and takes all my memory... I would be nice if it would generate a error message instead. David Axmark EMAIL: davida@isil.se or davida@emil.csd.uu.se or mcvax!sunic!kuling!isil!davida MAIL: Detron HB, Noreens vag 16, 752 63 UPPSALA, SWEDEN PHONE: + (46) 18 - 11 07 80 (I can't spell in ANY language ...)