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

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: John Cooper <john.cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: Crash when invoking vared on a non-existent shell variable
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:10:49 +0000
In-reply-to: "John Cooper"'s message of "Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:04:51 GMT." <B5885AA769039C49BD9295955CB2E0E40589799E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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John Cooper wrote:
> Hm.  I haven't noticed any warnings about zwarnnam, although I've only been
> using cygwin zsh for a few days now (since 4.2.0 was released). I'll keep a
> look out for it...

You only get the warning on compilation.  If it didn't get linked
properly, then any attempt to use it causes the crash as you saw.  It's
surprisingly hard to notice since a lot of modules (especially the zle
ones) don't issue warnings.  The vared one is probably the most obvious.

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

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