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Re: vi buffer overflow


From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert () wiggy net>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:21:33 +0100

Previously Kaneda Akira wrote:
on Redhat 7.0 (VIM 5.7.8)
# vi `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
Vim: Finished.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

For what it's worth, this was fixed in vim6.

Wichert.

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