* Protect the `true', `false' and `__overrides' constants. Without

  an ATprotect call, these could be garbage collected, leading to
  weird crashes or wrong results.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/aterm-helper.pl b/src/aterm-helper.pl
index 9b2bde700017..f1eb77ee80c2 100755
--- a/src/aterm-helper.pl
+++ b/src/aterm-helper.pl
@@ -146,8 +146,9 @@ while (<STDIN>) {
         my $value = $2;
         print HEADER "extern ATerm $name;\n";
         print IMPL "ATerm $name = 0;\n";
-        $init .= "    $name = $value;\n";
-    }
+        $init .= "    $name = $value;\n"; 
+        $init .= "    ATprotect(&$name);\n";
+   }
 
     elsif (/^\s*init\s+(\w+)\s*$/) {
         $initFun = $1;