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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:09:29 +0100
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Subject: Re: zsh segfaults with lots of data in one variable
From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 23:03, Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> However, in our case it's easy to fix just using ordindary malloc memory
> for saving $_. =C2=A0It would be much more efficient to mark underscore a=
s
> "push old value to stack on write", or something similar, but if I try
> that at ten o'clock in the evening I'll get it wrong.

Do you want to revisit this at a later time? If yes, I will mark this as bu=
g
and put it into SF's bug tracker after some time (usually you are simply to=
o
fast for me to actually put anything in there ;)


RIchard