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Re: Access violation on egcs-1.1.1



Christian Lange <clan@snafu.de> writes:
> The following piece of code yields a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION when 
> compiled with egcs-1.1.1 for Cygwin b20 as C++ source:
> 
> BYTE *my_strncpy( BYTE *d, const BYTE *s, int len )
> {
>     strncpy((char*)d, (const char *)s, len );
>     d[len-1] = 0x00;
>     return d;
> }
> 
> BYTE *my_strncat( BYTE *d, const BYTE *s, int len )
> {
>     strncat((char*)d, (const char*)s, len);
>     d[len-1] = 0x00;
>     return d;
> }

Thanks for the bug report. Christopher Faylor fixed this in the egcs
development sources (take out obsolete code that didn't handle SIGSEGV
on cygwin); I'll add the patch for upcoming egcs-1.1.2 as well.

Regards,
Mumit


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