<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi everyone,<br><br>The latest version 3.430 of the CFITSIO library includes a bug fix that addresses the ffmvec problem encountered last year.  It is available at</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/fitsio.html">https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/fitsio.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Willem</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 September 2017 at 21:34, Willem van Straten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vanstraten.willem@gmail.com" target="_blank">vanstraten.willem@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">There is a fairly major bug in the CFITSIO library that can lead to memory violation. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In most cases, PSRCHIVE programs that use the library will complete without any sign of error; however, in some cases, the program will either fail with a misleading error message or enter an infinite loop during which the output PSRFITS file grows until the process is killed or the file system is filled.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm surprised that the bug does not appear to result in data corruption more frequently, and that it was not noticed earlier.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I've sent a patch to the HEASARC CFITSIO Help Desk.  This patch is also distributed with the latest version of PSRCHIVE and there are some notes on how to install it at</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://psrchive.sourceforge.net/trouble/ffmvec" target="_blank">http://psrchive.sourceforge.<wbr>net/trouble/ffmvec</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Willem</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>
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