[q-lang-users] buffer overflow with q --help, with patches

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Hi all,

Gerard Milmeister, who thankfully maintains the Q package for Fedora,
has reported an issue with Q 7.8 which causes a buffer overflow when you
run q --help. That doesn't seem to have any disastrous consequences (q
--help works in spite of it), but of course it had to be fixed, and I
already did so in cvs.

Thanks to Gerard for his bug report, and kudos for maintaining the
Fedora Q packages.

I've attached the necessary patch against Q 7.8, for those who prefer to
work with tarballs.

Also attached: a minor fix to the symbol table code, which makes extern
redeclarations of virtual constructors possible (also in cvs).

I will hopefully get around uploading a bugfix release for the core
package before Xmas, but for the time being please apply those patches
to your source, or use the cvs version.

Thanks,
Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
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