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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:26:45 +0100
From: "Magnum, P.I." <rawsmooth@...dband.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: 1.7.5 jumbo-2 minor bugfixes

On 03/15/2010 10:18 PM, Magnum, P.I. wrote:
> Two uninitialized variables.
>
> nWordFileLines was only initialized if loading wordlist to memory. It
> must have made some real damage, but I found it just by coincidence
> while experimenting with wordlist distribution.
>
> hund_percent made me scratch my head for a while. That was just
> cosmetical though. It magically showed four decimals of precision after
> reading the integer stored in a .rec file :-)

Sorry, the first one is declared outside of functions so it should be 
ok. I did see it behave badly but that must have been due to other 
things I was experimenting with. I've run with an assert statement for a 
while and it's not uninitialized.

The second one really is a little bug though.

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