Re: 20020313: ncendef error

Hi Masaki Fukuda and V. Lakshmanan,

 "V. Lakshmanan" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I finally found the problem, thanks to valgrind.
> There is an uninitalized local variable at:
> 
> putget.c:1896     
>           void* xp;
> which should be:
>           void *xp = NULL;
> since that variable gets used in:
>            int lstatus = ncp->nciop->get(ncp->nciop, offset, extent,
>                                  RGN_WRITE, &xp);
>  and libsrc/posixio.c:486 uses it:
>          if (*vpp == NULL)
> 
> which is why my program would crash every
> once in a long while.

and Masaki Fukuda <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think the pointer expected to initialize NULL(see the patch which
> attached in this mail).
> 
> Am I correct?, Is this a bug?
> If correct, I'm appliciated that the bug fixed in the next version.

Thanks, you have both identified the same bug.  I used Purify to
verify that the appended patch in the libsrc/ directory gets rid of
all Uninitialized Memory Reads (UMRs) when running nc_test.  This fix
will be included in the next release, and you have both been added to
and acknowledged in the list of Credits for netCDF contributions at:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/credits.html

--Russ

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