Re: chgat() bug in ncurses-5.2.20010714 (as used in RH7.2)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 03:35:29PM +0100, Bram wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Whenever I make use of the *chgat() function in the mentioned version of
> ncurses (on a stock RH7.2 install), an infinite (recursive) loop occurs,
> at some point causing a sigsegv. The 5.2-release and 5.2.20011222 don't
> suffer from this bug though.
> 
> I don't reckon there's a lot that can be done about it, I'm just wondering
> if this was a known problem.

yes, I noticed it and fixed it (one of those things that gets broken while
working on other things, and fixed as a matter of course).  This particular one
was broken by splitting out the curses.wide file from curses.h.in, and not
moving all of the definitions to the right place.

I haven't seen it reported in Redhat's Bugzilla though.

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