gEDA-dev: Stack corruption PCB bug in hid_parse_actions????

[Peter Clifton]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 17:48 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:

> Looks like a nasty stack corruption, as whilst argv[0] moves its
> location by 2 bytes (and IIRC, its always this ammount), argv[0] still
> evaluates to the same string.. as if a portion of the stack has been
> shifted. (Cant have shifted all of it, as the function return appears
to
> be ok) (Evaluation of argv[0] as string not shown in output below)
> 
> And program output - from an instrumented version of PCB:

Since it might be useful to make sense of the output below, attached is
the patch which adds the instrumentation I used to produce the output
originally in my email.

Peter
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