If we fell through to the ALPM_DEP_MOD_ANY case, ptr would be NULL, and we would pass (0 - <str>), which is a rather large negative number or bogus positive number, depending on signed/unsigned. Just use strdup in the case where we don't have a ptr available. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> --- lib/libalpm/deps.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/deps.c b/lib/libalpm/deps.c index 47b7637..e268157 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/deps.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/deps.c @@ -441,7 +441,11 @@ alpm_depend_t *_alpm_splitdep(const char *depstring) } /* copy the right parts to the right places */ - STRNDUP(depend->name, depstring, ptr - depstring, return NULL); + if(ptr) { + STRNDUP(depend->name, depstring, ptr - depstring, return NULL); + } else { + STRDUP(depend->name, depstring, return NULL); + } depend->name_hash = _alpm_hash_sdbm(depend->name); if(version) { STRDUP(depend->version, version, return NULL); -- 1.7.6