Re: segmentation fault in test 'ncurses'

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:43:53AM -0700, David Ellement wrote:
> I built ncurses-5.2-20010505 using:
>     ncurses-5.2.tar.gz
>     patch-5.2-20010324.sh
>     ncurses-5.2-20010331.patch.gz
>     ncurses-5.2-20010407.patch.gz
>     ncurses-5.2-20010414.patch.gz
>     ncurses-5.2-20010421.patch.gz
>     ncurses-5.2-20010505.patch.gz
> 
> 
> I got a segmentation fault when I tried running 'ncurses' in the
> test directory (test 'b', cycling with 'f').  Here's the gdb output:

well, if it's a bug in ncurses.c that would be something to do with the
terminal description (for instance, COLOR_PAIRS isn't the product of
COLORS*COLORS e.g., colors=8, pairs=8, which I've seen in a few cases -
incorrect for an ANSI color model, but possible for hpterm).

-- I'll add a check for that case (the library should be ok though).

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> Core was generated by `ncurses'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> 
> warning: The shared libraries were not privately mapped; setting a
> breakpoint in a shared library will not work until you rerun the program.
> 
> Reading symbols from ncurses...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.1...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdld.1...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/nls/loc/locales.1/en_US.iso88591...done.
> #0  0xe670 in attr_test () at ../test/ncurses.c:501
> 501                 if (!pairs[pair]) {
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xe670 in attr_test () at ../test/ncurses.c:501
> #1  0x18334 in do_single_test (c=98 'b') at ../test/ncurses.c:3261
> #2  0x18d48 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7b03bdbc) at ../test/ncurses.c:3585
> 
> 
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> David Ellement
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