Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

>
> This strcmp() is in library function tgetent. Try to unset
> TGETENT_ACCEPTS_NULL, recompile and try again. It is possible that your OS
> actually needs preallocated buffer.
>
> One more possibilty is, that screen creates too long termcap entry. IIRC I've
> seen something similar. How long is new termcap entry? I think, common limit
> is 1024.
>
> -andrej

I've unset TGETENT_ACCEPTS_NULL.

$ export TERMCAP=abc
$ ./zhs
zsh: 26119 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./zsh
$ ddd ./zsh core

And the backtrace is
#0  0xef5a4274 in strcmp () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#1  0x126c04 in tgetent (bp=0x14d018 "", name=0x15cae8 "xterm") at termcap.c:469

#2  0x4860c in init_term () at init.c:480
#3  0x6f80c in termsetfn (pm=0x145e20, x=0x15cae8 "xterm") at params.c:2763
#4  0x6c518 in setstrvalue (v=0xefffed38, val=0x15cae8 "xterm") at params.c:1513

#5  0x6d7d4 in setsparam (s=0xeffffe51 "", val=0x15cae8 "xterm") at
params.c:1810
#6  0x67680 in createparamtable () at params.c:515
#7  0x491d4 in setupvals () at init.c:715
#8  0x12158 in main (argc=1, argv=0xeffff4bc) at ./main.c:78

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