The following reply was made to PR bin/28852; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <dsl@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/28852 CVS commit: src/bin/sh
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:46:26 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	dsl
 Date:		Mon Feb 14 20:46:26 UTC 2005
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/bin/sh: expand.c
 
 Log Message:
 expbackq() was incorrectly backing up a temporary buffer when removing \n
 from the end of output of commands inside $(...) substitutions.
 If the program output is n*128+1 bytes long (ending in a \n) then the code
 checks buf[-1] for another \n - looking an uninitialised stack.
 On a big-endian system an integer of value 10 will satisfy this (unlikely
 on little endian) and can happen depending on the last code path to use
 a lot of stack!
 This caused the problem with newvers.sh on sparc64 after ', 2005' was
 added to the date list.
 Fixed PR/28852
 
 
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 cvs rdiff -r1.67 -r1.68 src/bin/sh/expand.c
 
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