Re: 3.2 Bug

[Supratik Champati <champati@...>]

oops! I wanted to say it isn't rather obvious.

The problem is ls->fs->f->consts is initially NULL.
the call to checkname(ls) allocates the array.
On HPUX it is trying to access the index of a NULL array
and hence dumping core.

Michael T. Richter wrote:
> 
> At 01:53 PM 9/1/99 , you wrote:
> >static TaggedString *str_checkname (LexState *ls) {
> >  return tsvalue(&ls->fs->f->consts[checkname(ls)]);
> >}
> 
> >static TaggedString *str_checkname (LexState *ls) {
> >  int sc = checkname(ls);
> >  return tsvalue(&ls->fs->f->consts[sc]);
> >}
> 
> >This is causing a core dump on HPUX machines. The reason
> >is rather obvious.
> 
> It isn't obvious at all to me.  What's the problem?  Does HPUX's version of
> C not allow return values of functions in array accessors?
> 
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