Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.6dev.12 -- CRASH on OSX 10.4.1

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, OpenMacNews wrote:

> hi thomas,
>
> > a stack overflow.  The likely cause is a problem (I'm not sure what) with
> > the new chunk of code in src/LYCurses.c at line 1753
> > (the #ifdef USE_CURSES_PADS).  Looking at it right now, I suspect I see
> > the problem
...
> > Try changing the "#ifdef
> > USE_CURSES_PADS" line to "#if 0", and that should make the stack overflow
> > go away - perhaps the blinking also (I'd like to know the latter).
>
> =================================
> (EDITOR) src/LYCurses.c
> @62
> --- #ifdef USE_CURSES_PADS
> +++ #if 0
> =================================

I think you changed the wrong line.  Here's what diff -u shows for the
suggested change:

--- LYCurses.c.orig     2005-06-02 18:36:59.000000000 -0400
+++ LYCurses.c  2005-06-03 06:04:31.296205500 -0400
@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@
                const char *src,
                size_t len)
 {
-#ifdef USE_CURSES_PADS
+#if 0//def USE_CURSES_PADS
     /*
      * If we've configured to use pads for left/right scrolling, that can
      * interfere with calls to this function that assume they're wrapping.

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