From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: Parameter expansion, etc
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:41:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9906141641.AA17765@ibmth.df.unipi.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ""Kiddle, Oliver""'s message of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:45:13 DFT." <4FBF540FF16FD1119D9600A0C94B2B51F29E85@napier.logica.co.uk>
"Kiddle, Oliver" wrote:
> As an aside, is [2,$] the correct way to specify all elements in an array
> from 2 to the end. It certainly works but isn't documented (atleast not in
> my ancient print-out). I guessed it and it worked.
The standard way is [2,-1].
> In what circumstances should --enable-zsh-mem be used? I tried it on AIX and
> I get occaisional errors:
>
> Catastrophe in realloc: invalid storage ptr
Aix (3, at least) is definitely catastrophic. I haven't looked into the
details, though that's what I'm using here. It should work on most
systems. I don't think anyone has performed reliable comparisons of when
it works better then the system's own version.
--
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WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
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