From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5260 invoked from network); 14 Jun 1999 17:10:27 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Jun 1999 17:10:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 6150 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 1999 17:10:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6627 Received: (qmail 6143 invoked from network); 14 Jun 1999 17:10:20 -0000 Message-Id: <9906141641.AA17765@ibmth.df.unipi.it> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: Parameter expansion, etc In-Reply-To: ""Kiddle, Oliver""'s message of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:45:13 DFT." <4FBF540FF16FD1119D9600A0C94B2B51F29E85@napier.logica.co.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:41:41 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson "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. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy