[mdb-dev] mdbtools 0.6pre1 crash

[John C. <jfc@MIT.EDU>]

I built mdbtools 0.6pre1 with the Sun C compiler in 64 bit mode on a
SPARC running Solaris 8.  I have a file which makes mdb-export crash.
Fetch and unpack <http://www.mhd.state.ma.us/planning/RoadInv_GDB.zip>
(unpacks to over 300 MB).  Run
% mdb-export RoadInventory.mdb RoadInventory
mdb-export spews a series of garbage lines then dumps core.

The proximate cause of the crash is an array overflow of the
/text/ array in mdb_col_to_string because argument /size/ exceeds
MDB_BIND_SIZE, but I think the program went wrong long before that.