Re: compctl crash

[Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>]

Nicholas Riley wrote:
> I misunderstood the documentation for compctl, so I tried this:
>
> compctl +
>
> This crashes zsh back to at least 4.3.9 and up to the current version in 
> Git.

I tried 4.3.10 and a git build that's a few days old, but I could not
reproduce the problem.

> I had thought it would reset all the compctl-defined completions.

Note, that compctl is the older of the two completion systems, that zsh
implements. The newer - compsys - is the one almost everybody uses
(unless they still get that trusty old i386SX-16 another go every once
in a while...).

> glibc logs something of the form:
>
> *** glibc detected *** zsh: double free or corruption (!prev): 
> 0x09b89ca8 ***

Do you get a coredump? If so, could you load it into gdb and get a
backtrace?

Regards, Frank

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