Bug in Conf 2.0

[William G. Hutchison]

In article <2 at elgar.UUCP>, ag at elgar.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
>    Date: 15 Sep 88 10:32:05 EDT (Thu)
>    From: ucsd!rutgers!bpa.bell-atl.com!lehi3b15!flash (Stephen Corbesero)
>    I just received Conf across the net, and compiled it.  However, I get
>    a "Memory Fault -- core dumped" almost immediately.  

I compiled conf on a Unisys 7000/52 (CCI Tahoe) running SysV rel 2.
I found that malloc was being called to allocate zero bytes: I did not
have time to find out why.  I changed the source so that malloc was only
called to allocate a positive number of bytes (1 or more).
 With that fix, conf works fine.
Perhaps the author can find the "root" cause (pun intended).

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