Re: Crash when invoking vared on a non-existent shell variable

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

John Cooper wrote:
> When I invoke vared on a variable that doesn't exist, the shell crashes with
> the following:

Are you runing over a problem I sometimes have with cygwin that zwarnnam
doesn't get linked into modules properly and the shell crashes when a
module tries to call it?  If so, it's not just me and it should be
reported.  You should be able to see warnings about trying to import
zwarnnam as a data symbol.

It seems that the last symbol in the export list is not scanned properly
by dlltool.  My simple-minded workaround is to add another one even later.
(Remake until the warnings go away.  I'm not sure if the dependencies
are quite up to this.)

Index: Src/utils.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/utils.c,v
retrieving revision 1.57
diff -u -r1.57 utils.c
--- Src/utils.c	17 Dec 2003 20:47:39 -0000	1.57
+++ Src/utils.c	24 Mar 2004 16:16:29 -0000
@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@
     zerrmsg(fmt, str, num);
 }
 
+#ifdef __CYGWIN__
+mod_export void
+zz_plural_z_alpha(void)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 /**/
 void
 zerrmsg(const char *fmt, const char *str, int num)

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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