Original bug ID: 4796
Reporter: @avsm
Status: closed (set by @damiendoligez on 2009-05-20T11:57:53Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 3.11.0
Fixed in version: 3.11.1+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

We've had this patch in the OpenBSD port for a couple of years, and it's triggered with debug malloc flags which fill allocated memory with junk.

patch:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/lang/ocaml/patches/patch-yacc_reader_c?rev=1.2

--- yacc/reader.c.orig Thu Oct 6 07:34:51 2005
+++ yacc/reader.c Thu Nov 27 22:42:14 2008
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ char *substring (char *str, int start, int len)
for (i = 0; i < len; i++){
buf[i] = str[start+i];
}

• buf[i] = '\0';
  return buf;
  }