Looking for some easy to fix code (not packaging) bugs

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Nov 8 14:40:35 UTC 2006


j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl (Hans de Goede) writes:

> As you all know by now I'm a CS teacher as my daytime job. I'm
> currently working on a practicum where I want students to practice
> with / experience debugging / fault tracing. For this I'm looking
> for some bugs, which are 100% reproducable (no race conditions and
> other hard stuff) and should be relatively easy to fix. Basicly I'm
> looking for code bugs where lack of time is the most important
> reason for not fixing them.

| -- CMakeLists.txt --
| include(foo.cmake)
| foo()
| 
| -- foo.cmake --
| macro(foo)
|         message(SEND_ERROR "foo")
| endmacro(foo)
|
| $ cmake CMakeLists.txt
| ...
| Segmentation fault (core dumped)

with Extra's cmake-2.4.3-3.fc5

I did not had time yet to test it with recent cmake version.



Enrico




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