From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: "typeset -m" plays havoc
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:20:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000914112009.ZM15936@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1000914173545.ZM15847@candle.brasslantern.com>
On Sep 14, 5:35pm, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Subject: Re: PATCH: "typeset -m" plays havoc
> On Sep 14, 8:55pm, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> } Subject: RE: PATCH: "typeset -m" plays havoc
> }
> } What happens in case of
> }
> } splat() { typeset -F -m \* }
>
> Depending on what stands in for -F, it dumps core.
Which has nothing to do with my patch, by the way.
Bad Things happen in every version of zsh back to 2.4 if you specify other
type-declaration flags with -m. How bad, varies from "mostly harmless" to
"complete disaster" depending on which version and which flags, with the
more recent versions having the greater potential for flame-out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-14 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-14 15:42 Bart Schaefer
2000-09-14 16:55 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-09-14 17:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-09-14 18:20 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2000-09-15 16:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-09-15 17:36 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-09-15 18:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-09-17 3:53 ` PATCH: "typeset +m ..." and "typeset +g -m ..." Bart Schaefer
2000-09-18 8:40 ` Parameter aliasing? RE: PATCH: "typeset -m" plays havoc Andrej Borsenkow
2000-09-18 15:45 ` Bart Schaefer
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=000914112009.ZM15936@candle.brasslantern.com \
--to=schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com \
--cc=zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.vuxu.org/mirror/zsh/
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).