Re: bug: ncurses + slackware 10.0, 10.1

[Frank Heckenbach]

Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Russell Whitaker wrote:
> 
> > Program below illustrates a bug: lower case a,  lower case f thru z,
> > and number 0 are printed with graphic characters. This bug did not
> > appear in earlier versions of slackware.
> 
> I don't have Slackware 10.0 or 10.1; a quick try at testing this with
> Debian isn't working out, since the Debian package apparently doesn't
> build any of the units - just the compiler.

Please use the option `--automake' when calling gpc, then it will
build the units together with the program.

Also, you might have to remove the `FrameWin' unit (it's not a
standard unit, and the call to it is already commented out).

> However, if it's an ncurses change (nothing offhand occurs to me, reading
> the example), one could use ltrace to get a reasonable idea of the calls
> that are being made in ncurses (not 100%, since some of the interface may
> modify the WINDOW struct directly, but probably good enough to see this
> sort of problem).

I don't have Slackware 10.x here either, and the program works
correctly for me. Unless you can reproduce a bug with the hints
above, I guess I'll have to check it with the respective ncurses
version to find out if it's a GPC or CRT bug (which would be my
responsibility ...)

Russ, which ncurses version is it that you have? Look in
/usr/include/ncurses.h for:

#define NCURSES_VERSION_MAJOR
#define NCURSES_VERSION_MINOR
#define NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH

Frank

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