Re: coredump in df_readascii

In article <980e1957-d347-4871-ba91-caec429395fb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<dipesh_kamdar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
thanks for quick reply.

Version : 4.2.3
OS : AS3

It looks like problem with is_comment(c) in datafile.c.
Reason : df_commentschars is null.

#define is_comment(c) ((c) && (strchr(df_commentschars, (c)) != NULL))

Strange.
I can think of no way in which df_commentschars could ever become NULL.
It is initialized to "#", and any further set/unset commands can only replace
this with another string. You can set it to an empty string, but that
is a normal condition and shouldn't cause a segfault.

Did you intentionally use
set datafile commentschar ...
to set it to something unusual?
--
Ethan A Merritt
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