vi segfault in 1.11.0.

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Monday 14 July 2008 11:25, Rob Landley wrote:
> > busybox vi seems to be lacking active users :(
> > For one, I don't use it too, so bugs go unnoticed.
> 
> I'm plugging the sucker into Firmware Linux again.  (I've disabled toybox 
> almost entirely for the moment, only used for oneit and patch.)
> 
> The huge piles of bugs and missing features I found from 2003 through 2006?  
> Pretty much from plugging the sucker into a full development environment, 
> building a Linux system using it, and then running the result and trying to 
> debug it under itself.

I am actually using busybox all the time.
 
> I am, however, still banging on the release version, not svn.

Take 1.11.1, it has only trivial fixes. There is one fresh post 1.11.1 fix too


> Expect more bugs. :)
> 
> Rob
> 
> P.S  The "optimize cursor movement" option of VI _totally_does_not_work_.  You 
> have to disable that or the screen is garbage.  (For me, anyway...)

Wow. char cm2[] at line 2513 is being used after it goes out of scope
by way of a pointer. Amazing. :)

See attached.
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