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Re: PATCH: Re: Parameter expansion, etc

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: Parameter expansion, etc
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:41:41 +0200
In-reply-to: ""Kiddle, Oliver""'s message of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:45:13 DFT." <4FBF540FF16FD1119D9600A0C94B2B51F29E85@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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"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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References:
- PATCH: Re: Parameter expansion, etc
  - From: Kiddle, Oliver

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