Spiff -C dumps core
Kirk Woods
kirk at sequent.UUCP
Fri Jun 30 02:12:43 AEST 1989
I found a problem with SPIFF while doing a syntactic diff of a C file.
The problem was caused when spiff ran into a character data assignment
of a double quote character in the form '"' and '\"'. SPIFF interprets
this to be the begining of a quoted string and gets a segmentation
violation when it tries to find the end of the quote.
The fix is to make that charcter assignment a literal by adding the
following lines to spiff.c:
--- 261,268 -----
** the C programming language
*/
case 'C' :
+ C_addcmd("literal '\"' ");
+ C_addcmd("literal \\\" ");
C_addcmd("literal \" \" \\ ");
C_addcmd("comment /* */ ");
C_addcmd("literal && ");
The line numbers may be different since I use indent alot on sources from
the net.
As a side note: I think spiff is great for verifying that indent did
not corrupt my source files, which it occasionally does.
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