New GPC beta: gpc-971001_(re)

Wed, 8 Oct 1997 20:19:36 +0200

Maurice Lombardi wrote:

> There is another error in this initialization part (which presumably has
> nothing to do with the crash of the compiler).
> The variable ppJunk is New'ed, used to fill CmdLine, which is a pointer
> of pChar type, Then Dispose'd. So the memory to which CmdLine points is
> reputted into the heap, and can be overwrited by subsequent instructions
> in the main program.

Unfortunately, there are similar bugs (at least) in the functions Str2PChar
(in System.pas) and Int2PChar (GPCUtil.pas). I hope they will be fixed in
the next release.

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