Re: newwin seg fault

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 06:54:37PM -0500, Joe Davies wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> This is my first post to this list.  I'm developing a simple app on unix
> sysV, using Curses (I know, not nCurses!) and can't find any decent
> resources or help on curses.  I ordered a book on Feb 25th, but it hasn't
> arrived yet!
> 
> Anyway, when I create a window using newwin(0,0,0,0) I have no problems, but
> when I try to define some constraints to the window, I get a segfault on
> run.  This is using: newwin(14,0,0,0)

That's a window which has zero columns.  Doesn't newwin return a null pointer
in that case?

       WINDOW *newwin(int nlines, int ncols, int begin_y, int begin_x);

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