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To: mwlucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2534) civclient crash on FreeBSD 5.0
From: "Raimar Falke via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:27:09 -0800
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 04:44:49AM -0800, mwlucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx via RT 
wrote:
> 
> Fix.diff solves the problem!  Hurrah!

Very nice.

> While I'm happy, would you like me to do any further testing or
> debugging to make this fix "more proper" for you guys?

No. The problem is obvious. So is the solution.

The only remaining question is: what did overwrite the freed memory
with 0xd0? Did the normal malloc implemention of FreeBSD overwrite it?

        Raimar

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