Re: lynx-dev Crash with 2.8.5rel.1

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > 040217 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:04:55PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> > > >> I can reproduce it anywhere, even in $HOME.
> > > >> 1- 'Shift+:' and type source. It displays the source of the page.
> > > >> 2- Use '\'.
> > > >> Do it a few times. Here it crashes in 4-5.
> > > > I can reproduce it (also with 2.8.4rel.1, so it's something we didn't 
> > > > see).
> > > > valgrind tells me what the walkback does, but not why (will work on it).
> > >
> > > not reproducible here (tested on  http://www.newscientist.com/inprint/ )
> > > w 2.8.5dev16 = 2.13.16 on Gentoo Linux .
> >
> > On Linux it didn't crash for me.  But valgrind can show problems like this
> > which eventually might make it crash.  He's testing on cygwin, which would
> > behave a little differently.
>
> No, it's on Linux !

no problem.  Even Linux isn't all the same.  I can recall some bugs that
would break on Debian which I didn't notice for a while since I was using
Slackware at the time.  (The reverse applies also).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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