Fix for truly nasty bug introduced this morning
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Aug 15 21:05:46 UTC 2017
Hal, I think I found the bug that was messing you up.
The commit "Address GitLab issue #356: reverse function for restrict"
introduced a 'mode' field to restriction nodes in the config parser.
The mode could be T_Restrict or T_Unrestrict to specify whether this
node is meant to turn restriction flags on or off. Before this change
all nodes were restriction-on.
The mistake I made was putting the new field first in the structure.
This caused it to be randomly trashed by type-punning
dynamic-allocation code that was expecting a link field there.
C. Gotta love it. Otherwise you'd have to seriously hate it.
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