RE: Invalid assigment to cast in back-bdb (ITS#2541)

[hyc@symas.com]

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> From: owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of
h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no

> Full_Name: Hallvard B Furuseth
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> Submission from: (NULL) (129.240.186.42)
> Submitted by: hallvard
>
>
> ISO C forbids use of cast expressions as lvalues: that's a
> gcc extension.
> However, back-bdb/delete.c does `BEI(e) = <value>;' at lines
> 491 and 495,
> with '#define BEI(e) ((EntryInfo *) ((e)->e_private))' from
> back-bdb.h.
> I suggest to use `#define SET_BEI(e, val) ((e)->e_private = (val))'.

There's a different problem here; the EntryInfo corresponding to this entry
has already been deleted, and the entry is now being used in a search
operation, with its parent's EntryInfo. This usage is bogus.

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